@Fakespeak

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Project on the language of fake news in English, Norwegian and Russian | collaboration between #UiO and #SINTEFDigital in Norway | #fakenews #linguistics #machinelearning
Homepagehttps://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/fakespeak/

I will give a keynote lecture on Monday at the 1st Workshop on Misinformation Detection in the Era of LLMs (MisD) - in conjunction with ICWSM-2025.

My talk is titled 'The Democratic Deficit of Misinformation Solutions'
Looking forward!

More about the workshop and speakers here: https://sites.google.com/view/misd-2025/invited-speaker?authuser=0

MisD@ICWSM2025 - Invited Speaker

Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled.

Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges.

Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading.

#disinformation #science

https://www.nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities

Updates on NSF Priorities

NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

Fact checking investment 💶

Some places dismantle fact-checking. Others invest in them.

New initiative to support European fact-checking network.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-launches-eu5-million-call-strengthen-european-fact-checking-network

Commission Launches €5 Million Call to Strengthen European Fact-Checking Network

The Commission has launched a call for proposals to support the growth of a European Network of Fact-Checkers, in line with President von der Leyen’s 2024–2029 political guidelines, which introduced the European Democracy Shield initiative.

Shaping Europe’s digital future
New deadline for abstracts for #NorDisco (Nordic Conference on Discourse and Interaction): 7 of April!
I have a new book review in Communication, Culture and Critique. I highly recommend Bilge Yesil's book on the Turkish government's growing authoritarian control over media and communication technologies and narratives.
The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University (Finland) is hiring five (!) Assistant Professors in these areas:
- Computer Architecture
- Programming Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Software Engineering
- Systems Security
https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-computer-science/assistant-professor-positions
Assistant Professor positions | Aalto University

We are looking for multiple assistant professors to join our department

Our project has a PhD position available in forensic #linguistics investigating understanding problems in Norwegian police interviews with a focus on L2 speakers. We're looking for someone with experience with conversation analysis (note: requires knowledge of a Scandinavian language) - deadline March 16
https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/273824/doktorgradsstipendiat-i-rettslingvistikk-ved-fakultet-for-humaniora-og-pedagogikk
Doktorgradsstipendiat i rettslingvistikk ved Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk (273824) | Universitetet i Agder (UiA)

Stillingstittel: Doktorgradsstipendiat i rettslingvistikk ved Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk (273824), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Agder (UiA), Søknadsfrist: søndag 16. mars 2025

Jobbnorge.no

If you currently use any corporate social media,

be extremely careful what you are feeding your brain with.

Everyone think they are immune to manipulation and propaganda, but the truth is nobody is. Not even me and not even you.

Algorithm manipulation works very slowly and it is easier to get caught in it than you think.

Our only defense is to preemptively curate what we feed our brains carefully. Be very cautious about what you feed to your brain. Favor direct information sources that you trust rather than easy automated feeds and algorithmic recommendations.

Remain vigilant at all time.

Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 has a prolonged CfP deadline!

(If you bridge to Bluesky, tell them to add their bridge!)
https://www.cl2025.co.uk/

https://bsky.app/profile/cl2025.co.uk

International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 #CL2025 30th June to 3rd July 2025 • Birmingham, UK Aston University • Birmingham City University • University of Birmingham
@corpuslinguistics

CL2025

Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham. CL2025 will take place from Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July 2025, preceded by the International Summer School in

Brake up with Fake News

Danish national lexicon will no longer advertise on social media. This decision follows Meta's decision to deprioritise fact-checking.

Going forward, https://Lex.dk will spend its advertising budget on independent, national media that are committed to democracy.

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