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…
The Irish far-right is exploiting the death of George Nkencho to promote its racist ideology. First they presented George Nkencho as a hardened criminal, but…
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…
Dr Jane Suiter, founder and director of FuJo, has been named as the 2020 Researcher of the Year by the Irish Research Council. Jane was…
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…
The #KeepItReal campaign was launched today by ARTICLE 19, an international NGO advocating for the establishment of an Irish Social Media Council. Inspired by press…
The grant from the European Commission will fund a new research project that will study how the diverse media discourses across Europe are constructed to…
The Choosing Our Future Public Forum launches this week to engage the public with key debates surrounding Covid-19. One topic examines how to combat fake…
We want to hear from the Irish Public on how science can shape our shared future post COVID-19. FuJo, in partnership with The ADAPT Centre…
Ligaiya Romero, a photographer, filmmaker and scholar who covered the protests spread in the US following the death of George Floyd, was quoted in a recent letter from…