Online, 11 March and 18 March 2024
Ahead of the European Parliament elections, EDMO has launched a training series on election integrity. The first training module will focus on election integrity on online platforms and the second is aimed at journalists covering the upcoming elections.
Module 1: Elections Integrity on Online Platforms: What to Expect and How to Engage - 11 March 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET
In 2023, the Integrity Institute Elections Integrity Working Group released best practices for online platforms’ elections integrity efforts (Part 1 & Part 2). These resources are primarily aimed at platforms, but offer valuable information for civil society and regulators to understand what to look for from platforms around elections, what external stakeholders can be advocating for platforms to be doing, and what the entry points might be to interact with platforms effectively to address the challenges related to the electoral context. With elections in Europe scheduled throughout 2024, including for European Parliament, this training is offered to EU-based non-platform stakeholders to share the insights from the Elections Integrity Best Practices resources. The information provided in the training will help these stakeholders better understand how platforms can and should be undertaking election integrity work, and how they can advocate for better practices, and more effectively interact with platforms.
Target audience: European civil society organizations, academic researchers, and EU regulators/policymakers
Meet your Trainers
Jeff Allen is co-founder and Chief Research Officer at the Integrity Institute. A former physicist and astronomer who left academia for data science, Jeff has worked on multiple sides of the internet information ecosystem: on publishers trying to maximize traffic they get from platforms, on platforms themselves, and on political organizations and campaigns trying to navigate online spaces. At Facebook and Instagram, he worked to ensure that the incentive structure the platforms created for publishers aligned with the company mission statement.
Glenn Ellingson is a technologist specializing in the safety of online platforms. With the Integrity Institute he focuses on global election integrity efforts. Glenn has led teams at Facebook and Instagram working on digital literacy, voter suppression, civic harassment, and electoral & health misinformation through global events including the 2020 US election cycle and the first years of the covid pandemic. Glenn has degrees in computer science and communication and three decades of experience building internet platforms of all sizes.
Deadline for applications
4 March 2024, 10:00 CET
Applications are now closed
Module 2 - Training for journalists ahead of the European Parliament elections - 18 March 2024, 15:30-17:00 CET
The first part of the training module will focus on ‘The Challenge of EP news coverage’, identifying patterns and challenges for journalists in covering the European Parliament elections and how to mitigate such challenges. The training will present differences in approach to covering EP elections in different countries and discuss possible barriers, including economic, political and within news organizations.
Building on the work of the EDMO Task Force on the 2024 EP elections set up to monitor and counter attempts to condition and undermine public confidence in the democratic process, the second part of the training module will present useful information and monitoring tools already made available by EDMO. In particular, the training will present EDMO publications that can be useful for monitoring disinformation ahead of the EU elections, namely the EDMO monthly briefs, the EDMO Task Force reports and EDMO investigations.
Target audience: This training module is aimed at journalists, but other stakeholders working in the counter-disinformation field are also welcome to apply.
Meet your Trainers
Claes H. de Vreese is University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society, with a special focus on media and democracy at the University of Amsterdam. He is the co-director of AlgoSoc: Public Values in the Algorithmic Society (a 10-year national research program, 2022-2032), the AI, Media & Democracy Lab (https://www.aim4dem.nl), and the Digital Democracy Centre (SDU, Denmark). He has done research on EU, media and public opinion since 1999.
Deputy director of Pagella Politica and Facta news since 2020, fact-checker since 2016 and professional journalist since 2012, I mainly deal with European and international projects involving our newspapers. In particular, I coordinate the fact-checking activities of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and the Italian Digital Media Observatory (IDMO), I am a member of the Governance Body of the European Fact-Checking Standard Network (EFCSN) and of the Taskforce of the Code of Practice on Disinformation of the European Union.
Deadline for applications
8 March 2024, 10:00 CET
Applications are now closed