Disinformation is widely regarded today as a major challenge for democratic societies. Yet efforts to address it inevitably raise ethical, political, and communication questions, including the risk of generating unintended consequences.
This workshop brings together ethical thinkers and practitioners to reflect on concerns that often remain implicit in our everyday practices and policies of disinformation mitigation. By convening researchers, practitioners, educators, journalists, and policy makers, the event aims to foster critical dialogue and to identify practices that balance effectiveness with ethical responsibility.
This workshop welcomes educators, policy makers, media professionals, disinformation analysts and researchers, and other stakeholders involved in the mitigation of disinformation, especially in Luxembourg and Belgium.
This workshop is an initiative of EDMO BELUX 2.0, a multidisciplinary hub that brings together academics, fact-checkers, disinformation analysts, and media literacy organizations to monitor, analyse and contribute to the mitigation of disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg. EDMO BELUX 2.0 is one of the 15 national or regional hubs being coordinated by EDMO.eu, the European Digital Media Observatory. EDMO BELUX 2.0 is co-funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101158785.
Provisional programme (PDF version here)
09:00 – 09:25 | Coffee and welcome
09:25 – 09:30 | Welcoming speech
By Trisha Meyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and EDMO BELUX) and Geoffroy Patriarche (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and EDMO BELUX)
09:30 – 10:45 | Session 1: The tension between politicisation and epistemic integrity in the mitigation of disinformation: the case of fact-checking
09:30 – 9:55 | Politicisation of Fact-Checking
9:55 – 10:30 | Panel Discussion: ethical challenges in practical disinformation mitigation. Interactive dialogue featuring EDMO experts and practitioners and ULIDE members.
10:30 – 10:45 | Audience Q&A
Moderation by Sabri Derinöz (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and EDMO BELUX)
10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break
11:00 – 12:15 | Session 2: Communication at the crossroads of disinformation: from political advertising to media literacy
11:00 – 11:25 Cross-Country Analysis of Transparency and Targeting of Electoral Advertising on Meta and Google during EU Elections.
By Trisha Meyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and EDMO BELUX)
11:25 – 11:50 Challenges, perspectives and good practices of media literacy campaigns on disinformation
By EDMO BELUX Work Package 4
11:50 – 12:10 | Audience Q&A
Moderation by Sabri Derinöz (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and EDMO BELUX)
12:10 – 12:20 | Closing speech followed by a drink
Registration
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. The registration form is available at https://forms.office.com/e/kwSWhSRGrT. Please register by October 19 at the latest.
Practical information
This workshop will be held at RTL LUXEMBOURG, 43, Boulevard Pierre Frieden, L-1543 Luxembourg
Concerning the practicalities, there are bus stops « Léon Thyes », « Simone de Beauvoir ») close to the RTL building (43, Boulevard Pierre Frieden) and a tram stopping at around 10 minutes walking from the building. All information on public transport is available on the website: https://www.mobiliteit.lu/en/.
Organising committee
This workshop is organised by the EDMO BELUX team of UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles (Sabri Derinöz and Geoffroy Patriarche) and RTL Lëtzebuerg (Luc Marteling and Viviane Folscheid), with the support of the EDMO BELUX team of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Trisha Meyer, Nadia Tjahja, and Basak Van Hove).