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TU Dortmund University is Partner in New Fact-checker Website

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GADMO.eu will provide the largest freely accessible archive of German-language fact-checks.
A new fact-checking platform helps citizens to recognize false assertions and disinformation campaigns on the internet more easily. Whether Russian propaganda about the Russia-Ukraine war or fake news about the coronavirus – from now on, the fact-checkers at dpa (the German press agency), the CORRECTIV newsroom, AFP (the French press agency) and APA (the Austrian press agency) will use the GADMO.eu platform to present the latest articles on the false information currently being circulated. The website will thus host the largest freely accessible archive of German-language fact-checks. In the future, it will also contain articles on research work as well as learning opportunities to foster citizens’ media literacy.

The German-Austrian Digital Media Observatory, in short GADMO, is the largest alliance of fact-checking teams and researchers in the German-speaking world. The objective of the project, which began on 1 November 2022 and is led by the Institute of Journalism at TU Dortmund University, is to take a coordinated approach to combating false assertions and disinformation campaigns on the internet. To this end, the fact-checking organizations are working closely together with researchers at the Institute of Journalism and the Department of Statistics of TU Dortmund University as well as the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The researchers identify and analyze disinformation campaigns, develop AI-based tools to better recognize what is fake, and check whether digital platforms and social networks are doing enough in the fight against disinformation. Athens Technology Center provides the technological support.

Researchers from TU Dortmund University are the project leaders

“People deliberately spread false assertions on the web in order to influence social debates. However, their impact goes far beyond the internet. That is why it is important to combine efforts and educate people about disinformation, promote media literacy, and examine how manipulated content is disseminated and how it can be recognized. Our GADMO.eu website shows what is being done in the GADMO project each day – and we are very pleased that with it we are now able to offer the public a central contact point. We are convinced that through it we will definitely gain some ground in the race against disinformation campaigns,” says Christina Elmer, Professor for Digital and Data Journalism at the Institute of Journalism of TU Dortmund University. She is in charge of scientific research within GADMO and coordinating the entire project together with Stephan Mündges.

GADMO is part of the pan-European network of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). This independent coordination body funded by the EU was launched in 2020 and aims to bundle the efforts of fact-checking organizations, researchers and other experts in the fight against disinformation. The network meanwhile comprises 14 regional centers covering all EU countries and Norway.

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