Time: Tuesday 2.4.2024 at 14-17 CEST followed by Democracy drinks until 19
Hybrid event: Merkki museum, Ludviginkatu 2-4, 00130 Helsinki & online (also recording).
Faktabaari Forum is the prime forum to support Faktabaari’s mission to serve fact-based public debate and digital information literacy development. This special year we celebrate Faktabaari’s 10 years anniversary and inform our friends on EDMO NORDIS second phase. We need the independent networks to defend democracy and information integrity during the historical 2024 election year.
Our event focus remains on AI and social media – we STOP, THINK and CHECK what has worked and could work in practice for informed citizens in democracies especially in Finland, Nordics and Europe, with comparison to US developments with somewhat different regulatory environment.
We kick-start with a keynote from our US quest from the Center for an Informed Public Co-Founder Jevin West, and then hear greetings from our NORDIS colleagues and EDMO partners in view of 2024 European and US elections integrity and beyond. For the anniversary we also share some highlights from the 10 elections Faktabaari has covered as a laboratory for Digital Information Literacy and modern fact-checking in Finland and beyond. Faktabaari has organized Fora on International Fact-Checking Day since 2015.
Let’s be amazed, Let’s be scared, Let’s be critical, Let’s be practical!
Without forgetting to celebrate over Democracy Drinks!
Keynote
Election integrity at the time of social media and generative AI – how should we prepare our citizens?
Jevin West, Co-Founder of the Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington, US, Co-author of the best-selling book, “Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World”.
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Full programme
13.30 Coffee
14:00 Welcome: STOP THINK CHECK - Faktabaari 10 years and beyond with networks. Mikko Salo, Faktabaari
14.15 Congratulations to Faktabaari and preparing for EDMO NORDIS re-launch together, Morten Dahlback, Faktisk & NORDIS (video)
14:20 Keynote and discussion
Election integrity at the time of social media and generative AI – how should we prepare our citizens?
Jevin West, UW CIP
Commentary: Prof. Teemu Roos, Generation AI / University of Helsinki
Moderator and Q&A: Mikko Salo, Faktabaari / EDMO NORDIS
II. Ongoing approaches for election and information integrity
15:20 Digital Election Watch network for EU elections? - lessons learned from the Finnish Presidential Elections, Pipsa Havula, Faktabaari & Guillaume Kuster, CheckFirst
15:35 Commentary and Q&A: Complementarity to NORDIS and Elections24Check fact-checking efforts, Thomas Hedin, TjekDet / NORDIS
15:45 Coffee & game break: AI-to game - entrance to the world of AI manipulation peli.faktabaari.fi
16:00 AI Literacy and prebunking - immunizing new voters to infodemics during elections, Kari Kivinen, Faktabaari EDU
Commentary: Jevin West and Teemu Roos
III. Summing up and Next steps
16:30 Summary Takeaways from previous presentations (and the Nordic policy initiative)
16:40 NORDIS campaign with journalist in view EU elections: “The battle” on 9.5., Andreas Önnefors, FOJO, Linnaeus University (TBC)
16:50 Closing words and FAKTA Foundation, Mikko Salo & Elina Kiiski-Kataja
17:00 Democracy drinks for information resilience (stream ends)
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Results and aftermath
- 60 participants from 4 countries were present in our event, and around 58 paticipated online from all around the world. The general reception of the event was enthusiastic, participants representing a great number of organizations ranging from various governmental and non-profit organizations to educational institutes, newspapers and businesses.
- The insightful keynote and the following discussion with profs. Jevin West and Teemu Roos was taken as an eye-opener as to how our infosphere is changing through the rapid proliferation of AI-powered tools. West pointed out to the fact that large parts of the internet are becoming “dead” as in filled with unreliable AI-generated content.
- Pipsa Havula and Guillaume Kuster presented findings from Faktabaari & CheckFirsts research project Digivaalivahti (Digital Election Watch) on how recommendation algorithms can be used to manipulate democratic elections, with complementary perspectives by Thomas Hedin.
- Dr. Kari Kivinen’s lucid presentation on AI Literacy was particularily well received, focusing on prebunking stategies for dis- and misinformation.
- Besides the presentations, Faktabaari provided the participants an opportunity to freely network in the event, to discuss the themes and explore new cooperation possibilities. After the official event, discussions were continued in a more informal setting, to which approximately 45 participants participated.
- In general, the event resulted in disseminating information, novel perspectives to the information disorders, and well received networking opportunities to all participants. Overall the feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive.
Co-funded by European Union
in cooperation with EDMO NORDIS
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