WORKSHOPS
Workshop: Unmasking Synthetic Media: Practical Training on SynthID, Backstory, and Provenance Tools for Fact-Checkers
Participants will learn how to leverage SynthID—digital watermarking technology that embeds imperceptible signals directly into AI-generated text, images, video, and audio as well as the latest verification features built into Google Search, Chrome, and the Gemini app.
October 2 | 14:00-15:00
Workshop: FIMI: Russian Tactics and Techniques
This session examines how FIMI has evolved from a pre-2022 operational model built around troll factories, fake personas, and state-media amplification into a more diversified, adaptive, scaled-up, and persistent post-2022 ecosystem.
October 1 | 16:15-17:15
October 1 | 17:17-18:15
Workshop: SafeBox Network - How to protect your high-risk investigations
All around the world, journalists are subjected to violent reprisal, prison sentences, and even murder in response to their investigative reporting and the uncomfortable truths they uncover. To prevent crimes against journalists before they happen, Forbidden Stories, an international network of investigative reporters, created the SafeBox Network.
Workshop: Follow the Social Media Money
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to investigate monetization on different platforms, and learn how to use tools such as the monetization.wtf portal and the Meta Monetization Archive to support their research and evidence collection.
October 1 | 16:15-17:15
Workshop: Redroom, Decodes Narrative Algorithms in Realtime with Palantir-Grade OSINT framework
While governments often spend years designing narratives through FIMI and public content, Redroom.live by Owlink introduces an NSA and Palantir-grade technology now open-sourced for the OSINT community. Using fine-tuned LLMs, the platform decodes narrative approaches in real-time to reveal actors, publishers, and hidden networks.
October 1 | 17:15-18:15
Workshop: Cold War Games: Teaching Media and Information Literacy Through History
The workshop introduces Cold War Games, an educational board game developed by the Media Development Foundation (MDF) and the Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SovLab) to explore historical propaganda, disinformation, and influence operations through an interactive learning experience.
October 2 | 14:00-15:00
