VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence. Research project co-funded by HorizonEU. Makers of InVID-WeVerify-vera.ai verification plugin, plus much more! Focus: countering disinformation. Here: project owners’ views.
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Wishing you, all our followers and your families, a happy holiday season - assuming you have one! If this isn’t the case: keep rocking!
Time to act! EFCSN calls on platforms to actively counter #disinformation
Today (in fact right now!) we’re having the final project review - meaning the final evaluation of the project work by external experts, doing this on behalf of the @ec.europa.eu
On Tuesday, 2 December, from 2-6 pm, we welcome everyone interested to attend the "Meet the Future of AI" event in Brussels.
You can attend on location or online. Registration required. 👇
www.eventleaf.com/Attendee/Att...
ICYMI: we now provide factsheets and more information about veraAI results & services. Tools that were developed and/or enhanced in the course of the project.
All related to #disinformation detection, #ArtificialIntelligence, #NetworkAnalysis, #DataScience & more.
More on the veraAI website!
Excited to share the first edition of OSINT Field Notes for 2026. There's a lot here, from film geolocations, hybrid war maps, laptop farms, broken redactions and surveillance map sources.
Read here: tinyurl.com/osintfieldno...
Here's some nuggets from the dispatches section 👇🧵
NEWS! A new study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, carried out in partnership with @mlcommons.org and other institutions warns of risks of AI chatbots giving medical advice. More: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... 1/5
So this is dystopian as hell and I can't believe this is real...
AI agents are now writing takedown blog posts to shame maintainers for not accepting agent-generated PRs.
github.com/matplotlib/m...
We completed the @vera-ai.bsky.social project, funded by @ec.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social recently. Here, I look back on what was done and achieved - together with my @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy colleague Anna Schild who, with Eva Lopez, focussed on tool evaluation and testing.
“Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more compliant, more submissive.”
@janinedigi.bsky.social writing in @theguardian.com Opinions.
The law is clear in the EU: disinformation is a systemic risk on the biggest digital services. However, platforms have...
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance.
IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...
It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned, says war correspondent and author Janine di Giovanni
