An expanding group of Malian TikTok creators amuses its audiences with funny virals, made popular in particular by audio snippets. At the same time, the echoing of content is influenced…
read moreRight before the start of summer, team members Samba Dialimpa Badji, Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Bruce Mutsvairo, Mirjam de Bruijn, Modibo Galy Cissé, and Luca Bruls met up at Utrecht University…
read moreOn Monday March 27th from 15:00-16:30, Samba Dialimpa Badji participates in a panel on the consequences of fake news and disinformation in relation to democracy during an international panel organized…
read moreMulatu Alemayehu, Samba Dialimpa Badji and Kristin Skare Orgeret did fieldwork in Addis Ababa 12-18 March 2023. They carried out qualitative interviews with eleven media leaders, editors and journalists in…
read moreThis spring, Mirjam de Bruijn starts a new research project funded by NWO. The project, titled Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence, is an…
read moreMaster student Chiara Cozzatella and Research Master student Pieter Roden wrote a blog as part of a course at Leiden University. In this research project we aimed at understanding how…
read moreStories on artificial intelligence, such as deepfakes, Google voice generators, and the impact of conversation chatbots like ChatGPT, seem to occupy disinformation researchers at the time. Seeing-is-believing does no longer…
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