EDMO Week: United Against Disinformation

EDMO Week will take place every afternoon between 7-11 June focusing on key topics ranging from the need for a multistakeholder approach in tackling online disinformation to fact-checking in the context of a global pandemic, and from the role of research and policy to media literacy and other local initiatives.

Mon 7 June Setting the Scene

14:30 – 15:00 Welcome and Presentation of EDMO

• Miguel Poiares Maduro, EDMO and European University Institute
• Paula Gori, EDMO and European University Institute

15:00 – 16:30 Tackling online disinformation – Multistakeholder and multidisciplinary collaboration

Chair: Madeleine de Cock Buning, EDMO and European University Institute

• Claes de Vreese, EDMO and University of Amsterdam
• Siada El Ramly, Dot.Europe
• Paul Verschure, EDMO and Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
• Maja Cappello, EDMO and European Audiovisual Observatory
• Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
• Margaret Mitchell, Researcher
• Tobias Schmid, European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services

Tue 8 June Fact-checking during a global pandemic: challenges, opportunities, lessons learnt

14:30 – 16:30 Keynote speech

Chair: Nikos Sarris, Athens Technology Center

• Craig Silverman, ProPublica
• Baybars Orsek, International Fact-checking Network

Chair: Tommaso Canetta, Pagella Politica

• Massimo Sandal, Facta.news
• Pippa Allen-Kinross, Full Fact
• Jochen Spangenberg, EDMO and Deutsche Welle
• Derek Bowler, European Broadcasting Union

Wen 9 June Understanding online disinformation: the key role of research

14:30 – 16:10

Chair: Rebekah Tromble, EDMO and George Washington University

• Lisa Ginsborg, EDMO and European University Institute
• Anja Bechmann, EDMO and Aarhus University
• Richard Allan, EDMO
• Mathias Vermeulen, AWO
• Andrew Gruen, Facebook
• Kalina Bontcheva, EDMO and University of Sheffield
• Luca Antilli, Ofcom

16:10 – 16:30

Keynote speech

Chair: Madeleine de Cock Buning, EDMO and European University Institute

• Vera Jourova, European Commission

Thu 10 June Towards a new Code of Practice on Disinformation

14:30 – 16:30

Chair: Miguel Poiares Maduro, EDMO and European University Institute

• Krisztina Stump, European Commission
• Elda Brogi, EDMO and European University Institute
• Siada El Ramly, Dot.Europe
• Lubos Kuklis, European Platform of Regulatory Authorities
• Eliska Pirkova, Access Now
• Nic Newman, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
• Sarah Andrew, AVAAZ
• Erard Gilles, Assocation of Commercial Television

Fri 11 June EDMO goes local– Media and Information Literacy and the EDMO hubs

14:30 – 15:45 Media Literacy and online disinformation

Chair: Paula Gori, EDMO and European University Institute

• Emma Goodman, EDMO and London School of Economics and Political Science
• Sally Reynolds, EDMO and Media & Learning Association
• Sonia Livingstone, EDMO and London School of Economics and Political Science
• Maria Donde, European Platform of Regulatory Authorities
• Milan Zubíček, Google
• Paolo Celot, EAVI
• Giacomo Mazzone, Eurovisioni

15:45 – 16:35 EDMO goes local

Chair: Paula Gori, EDMO and European University Institute Presentation of the EDMO national/multinational hubs by their Coordinators. 16:35 – 16:45 Closing Remarks

• Madeleine de Cock Buning. EDMO and European University Institute
• Miguel Poiares Maduro, EDMO and European University Institute

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This content is part of the Media Freedom Rapid Response  (MFRR), a Europe-wide mechanism which tracks, monitors and responds to violations of press and media freedom in EU Member States and Candidate Countries. The project is co-funded by the European Commission.