Yesterday I had the pleasure to give a keynote at the NWO Expert Meeting on Disinformation. What an honor! And what a joy to re/connect with colleagues across fields about the challenges ahead and ways to address them. I can't say that we fully got this just yet but it's clear we're on it together 🤝

📣 We are hiring a PhD student! Please share widely 📣 Are you interested in #misinformation? Keen to understand citizen corrections? Apply for this fully funded 4-year PhD project at @ascor.bsky.social supervised by myself, Michael Hameleers and @Guda van Noort. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD: Understanding the Potential of Citizen Corrections to Instill Resilience Against Misinformation

Do you want to understand how we can best respond to misinformation in a digital information ecology? Do you want to dive into emerging methods of counteracting the information crisis? Are you keen to...

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📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to study misinformation effects and policies You will be working with @claesdevreese.bsky.social Michael Hameleers and myself at @UvA_ASCoR Deadline: 15 April vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...

Delighted to share that our paper on what happens after deception through a deepfake is now published open access in IJPP 🥳 w/ @hannahgreber.bsky.social & Alina Nikolaou journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New article: Why do citizens choose to read fact-checks about the Russian war in Ukraine? Our study shows that citizens in 19 countries (n = 19,037) are more inclined to seek truth rather than confirm existing beliefs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Publication alert: News users are likely to regard information on the Russian war in Ukraine as false. Info is seen as deliberative deception and Russian sources are substantially more likely to be blamed for falsehoods. commsky polisky eusky polcomm ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In times of crisis, the information landscape changes: often mis/disinformation proliferate. Christofer Talvitie, Michael Hameleers, Marina Turin and I published a white-paper with evidence-based recommendations for factchecking in times of crisis. commsky polisky benedmo.eu/wp-content/u...