08:30    Registration. At Lobby of building 17. Calle Madrid 133, Getafe (Location in Google Maps) 

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09:00 – 09:45 Room 17.2.75   EU Jean Monnet Chair: EU, Disinformation and Fake News

Moderator: Carlos Elías, Full Professor and Jean Monnet holder, MediaLab, Madrid University Carlos III, Spain

• Bella Palomo, Full Professor and Dean of Communication Faculty, Malaga University, Spain

• Raquel Alonso, Press team, the European Parliament Office in Spain

• Lucas Graves, Full Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA & Madrid University Carlos III, Spain

09:45 – 10:30 Room 17.2.75   Pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, fake news and media literacy in health communication (the HealthCOM project)

Moderator: Daniel Catalán, Full Professor and MediaLab Director, Madrid University Carlos III, Spain

• After the Virus: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Public Health Journalism. An Nguyen, Full Professor, University of Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Witness to the infodemic: Journalists’ fight against global disinformation. Rut Gómez Sobrino, United Nations Senior Consultant

10:30 – 11:15 Coffee break, networking and group photo

11:15 – 12:30 Room 17.2.75   Smart Lies, Smarter Tools: AI’s Role in Detecting Disinformation

Moderator: Carolina Fernández-Castrillo, associate professor, Madrid University Carlos III, Spain

• Tagging the Truth: Disinformation, AI Narratives, and Fact-Checking on TikTok. Pilar Lacasa, Nerea Rubio, Pavel Sidorenko. The University International of La Rioja & University of Alcalá, Spain

• Good vs Evil: Artificial Intelligence in the battle against disinformation. Almudena Barreiro Carrillo, Next Digital Hub and Data for Good Madrid, Spain

• Synthetic Friends: AI Companions and the Future of Disinformation. Massimo Flore, Aurora, Italy

• Teaching disinformation in the age of AI in french school system: continuity or revolution? Florence Michaux-Colin, Adeline Segui-Entraygues UPVM / INSPE PARIS, France

• Using AI and Economic Incentives to Impede the Propagation of Misinformation and Align the Values of Information Producers and Consumers. Neil H. Wasserman, The George Washington University, United States

• Psychological Dispositions Most Susceptible to AI-Generated Misinformation. Jason Potel, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

11:15 – 12:30 Room 14.0.11   Viral Lies, Verified Truths: Fact-Checking and Disinformation on Social Media

Moderator: Carlos Elías, Full Professor and Jean Monnet holder, MediaLab, Madrid University Carlos III, Spain

• The Role of Social Media Platforms in Amplifying Fake News and Rumors: Societal Risks in the Era of Unmoderated Content. Stefano Lovi, University of International Studies of Rome UNINT, Italy

• Between Interface and Practices: Exploring Community Notes on X as a Tool for Fact-Checking. Brogan Latil, Bastian August, Lydia Kollyri, University of Amsterdam / Paderborn University, Netherlands / Germany

• Climate Disinformation Networks: The Influence of Anti-Green Micro-Influencers on Telegram and X. Letizia Sacco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

• On the deployment of information retrieval and NLP tools for longitudinal study of disinformation in Telegram. Alfonso de Paz, Berta Chulvi, David Arroyo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

• Strategic Communication on Social Media in the Fight Against Disinformation: An Analysis of Slovak Ministry of Interior Before the 2023 Parliamentary Elections. Denis Javorik, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia

• Misinformation and Gaming: How can we build resilience to disinformation among groups who distrust mainstream institutions and resist overt educational efforts? Andrew Fowler, Ed Hodgson, Natasha Freedman, Fran Sonce, More In Common & University Arts London, UK

• Successful fight against disinformation? Going beyond usual psychological and socio-economic explanations! Petr Prášek, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

12:30 – 14:00 Room 17.2.75   Disinformation and Democracy: Fact-Checking in Political Contexts

Moderator: Rocío Sánchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain​

• Who Believes and Who Shares? A Systematic Review on Personality Traits and Misinformation Engagement. Bruno Silva, Carla Cardoso, Josefina Castro, Samuel Moreira, Gilda Santos, Margarida Santos, Inês Guedes. Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Justiça, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

• Disinformation as a barrier to climate action: Denialism and political self-efficacy in the face of the climate crisis. Justyna Ignaszak, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

• Automated Propaganda Detection in a Low Resource Languages: limitations, challenges and opportunities. Ieva Rizgelienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania

• Religious fake news and political capital: The Instrumentalization of theological discourse in electoral campaigns in Romania. Necula Constantin Valer, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

• Operation Overload: How a Russian Influence Operation Targets the Global Factchecking Community. Aleksandra Atanasova Francesco Poldi, Guillaume Kuster, Reset Tech/ CheckFirst, Germany

• An ethnographic exploration of online misogyny towards politically active women in Germany and its intersections with gendered disinformation. Leah Nann, LMU Munich University, Germany

• Reforms from yesterday that were lost in translation. Michael Ray Smith, LCC International University, Lithuania

• In Brazil, a president “sent by God”: fake news as a communication tool of the Bolsonarist far right. Tatiana Avila Gomes, CARISM - Paris Panthéon Assas, France

• The Evolving Landscape of Science Reporting: Journalists Navigating Retractions and Misinformation Challenges. Malgorzata Iwaniec-Thompson and Mike Thelwall. Sheffield University, UK.

12:30 – 14:00 Room 14.0.11   The Frontline of Truth: Fact-Checkers Fighting Disinformation

Moderator: Raquel Ruiz, predoctoral researcher, Madrid University Carlos III, Spain

• Fake news spread and susceptibility: insights from an ongoing study in the Portuguese context. Inês Guedes, University of Porto, Portugal

• From content to publics: a case for focusing on disinformation audiences. Gulnara Zakharova, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, France

• Speculative attitude in the construction of truth: a discussion on the weakening of factual truth consciousness in a post-truth era. Luís Pedro Ribeiro Rodrigues, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

• Disinformation trends in the DANA Photojournalist Flood Coverage. Carolina Fernández Castrillo y Celia Ramos. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

• Who Falls for Fake News? Psychological Profiles and Predictors of Susceptibility to Disinformation. Daniela Dumulescu, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• New tool for the study of public opinion formation with an application to debunking strategies: the deliberatively enhanced focus group (DEFoG). Luciana Fazio, University of Siena, Italy

• Gamification for Media Literacy and Critical Thinking. Martin Paučin & Andrej Trnka, University of Ss.Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia

• Selective Agreement in LLM Debates: anchoring effects and resistance to disinformation. Daniel Dovger & Marcio Fückner, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

14:00 - 14:30 Room 17.2.75     Closing and networking