Upcoming 2023 Conferences Turn the Spotlight on Disinformation and Mitigation Technologies
The appears that some of the hottest conference tickets for 2023 will be to events that focus on the study of disinformation and how it can be addressed.
There are several dozen such conferences scheduled for the U.S. this year, plus many more worldwide. Some are highly academic, with sessions designed to examine the psychology of how disinformation works and how people process it. Other events focus on the tech aspect, including how disinformation is created and echoed, and how tech tools can be used to interrupt the process. Still others focus on the politics behind the arguments caused by disinformation, and why some people will always fight efforts to “fix” it.
Here are some of the events we’re looking forward to:
National News Literacy Week – Virtual- January 23-27 – by the Scripps Howard News Literacy Project
- No so much a conference as an annual event that highlights the role of news literacy in a democracy, while providing participants with the knowledge, tools and abilities to become more news-literate.
Misinformation & Belief Science – Atlanta, GA – February 23, 2023 – by Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Technically a “preconference” to the SPSP’s annual conference – aimed at people who work on understanding and tackling misinformation in society from multiple subdisciplines. The presenters will focus on novel theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into the belief, sharing, and spread of misinformation, and associated behavioral changes.
Best Practices in Combatting Disinformation In the Public and Private Sector: 2023 Virtual – March 7 – 8, 2023 – by INFONEX Inc.
- A two-day conference coving a wide variety of topics, including things like the impact of misinformation and disinformation on trust, ways to map disinformation dissemination, and the recognizable tactics of malicious actors.
Annual IDeaS Conference: Disinformation, Hate Speech, and Extremism Online – April 13-14, 2023 – Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social – cybersecurity
- A hybrid conference focused on how social media is used to leverage disinformation, hate speech, and extremism online, while leveraging conversations what aim “to advance the science of social-cybersecurity through research and applications in this area.”
The Cambridge Disinformation Summit – Kings College, Cambridge England, plus an online live feed – July 27-28, 2023
- This conference will focus on how disinformation occurs, how it spreads and how it can be mitigated.
#Disinfo2023 – Krakow, Poland – October 11-12 2023 – by the EU DisInfoLab
- Brings together experts from diverse backgrounds, exploring pressing issues in the disinformation space, from developments in the field of open-source investigations, and in the policy domain with a focus on frameworks of accountability.
Other organizations planning upcoming disinformation conferences should feel free to drop us an email with the details. We will eventually build a conference page to keep track of ongoing disinformation and misinformation conferences and similar events.
