Deepfakes are expected to come broadly online in 2020, ushering in an era of confusion or worse – the complete collapse of trust in what we see and hear. What do news operation need to know? And how...
Alexios Mantzarlis
Alexios Mantzarlis is News and Information Credibility Lead at Google News Lab. He helps coordinate Google’s efforts to fight misinformation across both partnerships and product, with a particular concentration on fact-checking.
Prior to joining Google, he was the founding director of the International Fact-Checking Network and Managing Director of Pagella Politica. As Director of the IFCN, he helped draft the fact-checkers' code of principles and shepherded a seminal partnership between fact-checkers and Facebook.
He has been a member of the European Union's High Level Expert Group on fake news and online disinformation. His publications include a draft lesson plan for UNESCO, a chapter on fact-checking in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections in Truth Counts, and a peer-reviewed study on Zika and fake news on the American Journal of Health Education.
As news travels down a variety of media pathways, we need better ways to get corrections and major updates to people who've seen the original mistakes. Technology can help, but we also need updated ne...
There have been countless articles and panel discussions of “fake news” in the past year. But does the reality match the hype? And has all this talk drowned out the important work of calling out f...
What do we know about disinformation and what can be done about it? Are proposed cures sometimes worse than the actual diseases at hand? Or are we critically underestimating the scale of the problem a...
2016 was both the worst year and the best year for political fact-checking since it rebooted for the internet age. This panel will assess the reach, successes and failures of the instrument on both s...
What makes fact-checking work on TV? TV authors should work on creating a real format with precise rules. The audience must be aware that something different is happening. Otherwise, they can’t dist...
‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem: how can newsrooms work with social networks to help solve this problem? This panel will explore the current debates about the ‘fake news’ debate,...
Journalists have been publishing on the Internet for more than 25 years, but they are still relying on old story forms of just a headline and text. Structured journalism harnesses the power of the I...
The rise of political fact-checking has brought important accountability journalism to countries around the world. But you don¹t have to work for a fact-checking site to hold politicians accountabl...
Today, there are many examples in the United States and abroad. From the Pulitzer Prize winner Politifact to the latest arrival Truthteller of The Washington Post, fact-checking is discovering a new...
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