LATIF survey – invitation to participate
In the LATIF project we are trying to build a digital tool to help journalists and fact-checkers being impartial in verifying information
Impartiality and cognitive bias in the fact-checking process: an overview
The lack of impartiality is increasingly used as an argument to attack the credibility of news media outlets, as well as to undermine the trustworthiness of fact-checkers. The impartiality of news, regardless of the source, in a polarized social media world, is not common ground knowledge, but it constitutes a standpoint that has to be […]
Let’s argue with artificial intelligence: an argumentative approach to map the issue of impartiality in digitalized news production
4/07/2023 – 7/07/2023 Venue: ISSA 2023 Speakers: Elena Musi News organizations are constantly attacked with accusations of lack of impartiality, but a shared understanding of the notion is missing. Combining corpus analysis with a focus group with practitioners, we unpack the impartiality conundrum, distinguishing its scope over the news product and the newsmaking process. The […]
Enjoy our focus group – 21st June and 22nd June 2023
In the frame of the EMIF funded project “Leveraging argument technology for impartial factchecking”, we are working on eliciting standards for impartiality and build a user-friendly digital tool to help fact-checkers in the process of information verification
LATIF Dissemination and Communication strategy
The objective of the deliverable is to outline the strategy for dissemination and communication activities carried out during the project. The deliverable covers four main aspects of the strategy and is structured addressing the different aspects that a communication plan may focus on: the strategy from the project to the external audience, the basis for […]
Introducing LATIF’s Blog
Welcome to the blog section of LATIF’s website, where we strive to provide you with valuable insights into the latest trends and developments in research analysis, events, and articles related to our project. Our primary focus is on bringing the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) methodology to the fact-checking domain, which aims to counter and […]
Mariavittoria Masotina
Mariavittoria Masotina is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in the Human-Computer Interaction field. She embraces a user-centric perspective and a mixed methods approach integrating qualitative and quantitative methods Mariavittoria obtained her master’s degree in Social, Work, and Communication Psychology at the […]
University of Dundee
With a twenty-year track record in pioneering the application of philosophical and linguistic theories of argumentation in the development of new artificial intelligence systems and applications, the Centre for Argument Technology at the University of Dundee will drive the work on repurposing structured analytical techniques from the Intelligence Community for fact checkers. The Centre’s recent […]
University of Liverpool
The Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool has a long-standing record of leading international research projects addressing social, political and cultural impacts of digital media and leveraging the results to drive policy and innovation. Recently, it has hosted projects developing new methodologies for enhancing citizens’ data literacies (https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/me-and-my-big-data-developing-citizens-data-literacy) and teach citizens […]
T6 Ecosystems
T6 is a research and consulting SME with an interdisciplinary team devoted to applied research. The company, funded in 2005, has extensive experience in research and coordination of national and international R&D projects, most of them funded within the EC Research Framework Programmes. T6 carries out monitoring and impact evaluation on innovation processes; evidenced-based communication […]