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A new report published by DCU FuJo and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland examined how digital platforms implemented the EU’s monitoring programme for Covid-19 disinformation.…
Misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines are not being fact-checked on Facebook, a new study finds. Further analysis highlights inconsistencies in the application of Facebook’s policies.…
Twitter is piloting a new initiative, called Birdwatch, to crowdsource the identification of misleading tweets. Running in the US only, the crowdsourced evaluations will be…
FuJo and the Provenance project are sponsoring a panel on countering disinformation at the Age of Misinformation conference on 17 December 2020. The conference is…
The Brussels Effect is an interesting concept coined in 2012 by Ana Bradford, a Finnish-American professor at the Columbia Law School. The gist of the…
Supported by Science Foundation Ireland, FuJo will host a national citizen’s conversation on our post-COVID futures. The project will be led by Centre Director Jane…
Questioning the power relations behind audience metrics in journalism What do fields such as academia, health, police and journalism all have in common? Metrics. Ubiquitously imbricated in the fabric…
From pen and paper to the digital age, journalism has always been shaped by technology. While computer-assisted forms of reporting have thrived over the last…
This essay is concerned with the regulation of political advertising online in order to ensure the integrity of elections. It asks what political and digital…
The Irish creative screen industries launched a new, industry specific tool to measure carbon emissions. FuJo’s Prof Patrick Brereton was involved in developing the carbon calculator when…