Upcoming events:

On 3–4 April 2025 in Krakow, the conference “Truth, Trust, and Technology: Social Sciences and AI Countering Misinformation” will bring together leading experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore the role of social sciences and artificial intelligence in tackling global misinformation. Featuring speakers from the University of Cambridge, Jagiellonian University, University of Oslo, and others, the event will cover topics such as AI’s role in detecting misinformation and the psychological factors influencing trust in information. Free attendance is available for academics, researchers, PhD candidates, and students upon registration here – don’t miss this opportunity to join the discussion! Conference schedule: Schedule

Join us for an insightful day at the “Truth, Trust, and Technology” conference on 3 April 2025! The event kicks off at 9:00 AM with opening remarks by Jan Piasecki, followed by a keynote speech at 9:30 AM by Mikołaj Morzy on “Demystifying AI Tools and Their Social Influence”. After a coffee break at 10:15 AM, we dive into “The Age of Misinformation” with talks by Yara Kyrychenko on “Disinformation in Times of War: Lessons from the Ukrainian Conflict” and  Aleksandra Nabożny. The morning session concludes with a lunch break at 12:15 PM.

In the afternoon, we explore “Social Sciences About Misinformation” with presentations by Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg and Valentin Mang on “Lay Attributions of Misbeliefs Predict Intentions to Correct Misbelievers”. After another coffee break at 2:30 PM, the focus shifts to “AI Tools in Building Immunity to Online Misinformation”, featuring Michał Pluciński’s presentation on the Cyberware App and Jonas Kunst’s talk on “Mind Over Misinformation: AI-Driven Insights Into the Psychological Patterns Behind Conspiracy Beliefs”. The conference wraps up with closing remarks at 4:00 PM, followed by a mingling session until 6:00 PM.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with leading experts and explore cutting-edge research on misinformation, AI, and social sciences!

Past events:

• 17 December 2024 -Why People Believe Misinformation – and What We Can Do About It
• 16 November 2023 – Conference promoting the Basic Research Programme carried out under the EEA and Norway Grants.
• 5 June 2023 – Dr Paweł Gwiaździński recently appeared in the 3rd episode of the Radykalny Podcast, where he talked about our research on misinformation. 
• 31 March – 3 April 2023 – Prof. dr hab. Rafał Ryguła, gave a lecture entitled: “Who Believes in Fake News? A New and Holistic Approach to Understanding Susceptibility to (Mis)information as a Psycho-cognitive Phenotype” at The 13th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
• 16 February 2023 – online seminar – “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy”, Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky
• 15 – 17 February 2023 – project team meeting in Poznan (Poland)
• 9 December 2022 – Dr. Jan Piasecki’s lecture on “Misinformation online” in the framework of the closing event of the “Treasures of Generations” project, Association Nowe Przestrzenie (Polish language)
• 16 November 2022 – Poster presented at the Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting “Neuroscience 2022” held in San Diego, USA: “Are we willing to share what we believe is true? Cognitive processes, personality traits and information features influencing susceptibility to fake news” M. Piksa , K. Noworyta , J. Piasecki , P. Gwiaździński, A. Gundersen , J. Kunst , M. Morzy, R. Rygula. 
• 10-13 November 2022 – the preliminary results of the research on graph embedding algorithms have been published and presented at International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM): Wójtowicz, T (2022) Universal Graph Embedding Fine Tuning with Dirichlet Energy Smoothing.
• 19 October 2022 – Presentation of dr hab. Rafał Ryguła: “Who believes in fake news? Cognitive mechanisms and personality characteristics associated with different types of (mis)information susceptibility phenotypes” (Polish language)
• 9-13 July 2022 – Poster presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2022 in Paris: “Cognitive Processes And Personality Traits Associated With Phenotypes Of Susceptibility To (Mis)Information” R. Rygula , K. Noworyta , M. Piksa , J. Piasecki , J. Kunst , A. Gundersen, P. Gwiazdzinski. Book of abstracts (page 4122): https://kenesvm.azureedge.net/public/general/FENS2022.pdf
• 6 July 2022 –  Team meeting in Oslo and midterm seminar: Dr Jon Roozenbeek “How to counter misinformation using psychology”
• 26 April 2022 – Study visit from the National Science Centre (NCN)
• 22-23 April 2022 – Homo Informaticus 8.0 conference
• 27-29 October 2021 – First in-person meeting of the #Webimmunization project team members
• 30 August 2021 – Presentation entitled “Be Careful Who You Follow: the Impact of the Initial Set of Friends on COVID-19 Vaccine Tweets” at the 2021 Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks (OASIS 2021), 30 August 2021, virtual event, Ireland. The result of the participation was publication of a scientific article.  
• 29 April 2021 – Twitter Research Ethics Online Seminar
• 1 December 2020 – Online conference entitled “#Webimmunization. How can online social networks create collective resilience against misinformation?”