712 search results for “fake news ” in the Staff website
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Anna SmuldersFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Adolescents experience how susceptible they are to fake news with VR glasses and rubber hands
BrainTrain: an initiative from Leiden University in which a team of students visit high schools to make adolescents more resilient against disinformation on the news and on their socials. In an interactive two-hour guest lesson, high school pupils discover how easily their brains can be tricked into…
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As old as the road to Rome: 'Fake news was already to be found in ancient times'
Fake news a new phenomenon? Not according to Rens Tacoma and Indira Huliselan. In an NWO project, the associate professor and PhD student will delve into the twisting, scheming and tampering with facts that went on thousands of years ago.
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Fake News and Disinformation
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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How to factcheck fake news?
Alumni event
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European support for Dutch-Flemish project in the fight against disinformation
Dutch and Flemish partners, including Leiden University, are joining forces as the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) in the fight against the spread of fake news, and have received the support of the European Commission.
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Newscheckers wins European Citizen Award
The fact-checking initiative Nieuwscheckers has won the Dutch round of the European Citizens Award. This prize is awarded annually to projects and initiatives that deliver an exceptional performance within the EU.
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Online curiosity explored: 'We are more likely to accept information uncritically if it answers a question'
What do people wonder about on social media? University lecturer Matthijs Westera is the recipient of an NWO grant to investigate what people are curious about online.
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…
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LDE AI Mixer on disinformation and fake news
Leiden AI Week
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer Anna Tummers will receive an ERC grant of almost two million euros to change that.
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Willem van RooijenFaculty of Humanities
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Addie de MoorScience
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Willem KoetsenruijterFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Bart Custers: 'NCTV cannot track citizens using fake accounts'
For years, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) has collected and shared privacy-sensitive information about citizens. Experts say this is in breach of the law.
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Bart Custers in Trouw on ChatGPT and cybercrime
The EU proposal for a regulatory framework on artificial intelligence will not prevent the dangers of cybercrime or the spreading of fake news using ChatGPT. Cyber criminals can use the new technology to write harmful software, phishing mails and fake news.
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Fia van HeterenFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Astrid VandendaeleFaculty of Humanities
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Ashley WilkinsonFaculty of Humanities
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Misleading bar and pie charts
People can be easily mislead with graphs. But they don’t necessarily stay misled, the research shows.
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
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Miguel MiraFaculty of Humanities
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New staff
Are you about to start your new job at Leiden University? Or did you just start? Below we have summarised the most important information for new employees.
- News
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Guidelines for news articles
How do you write a good news article? Here are a number of guidelines to help you.
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Nico StaringFaculty of Humanities
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Rik de RuiterFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michaël OpgenhaffenFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Registering new programmes
If you have an idea for a new degree programme, be aware that the registration procedure is complex and time-consuming. Your faculty, the Executive Board, the Efficiency Committee for Higher Education (CDHO) and the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) must all approve.
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Algorithms descend into our sewers to improve inspections
They never cross our minds until, that is, they become damaged and then they’re a huge problem: our sewers. Their maintenance could be much faster and more accurate, PhD candidate Dirk Meijer has discovered. Algorithms are also proving to be a godsend deep underground.
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO Open Competition funding.
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Professor Pieter ter Keurs: 'People collect to function'
Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’
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'Elections are in the air here in Brussels, the energy is surreal'
German-American Mia Müller (26) has been working at the European Parliament for three years now as Press Officer at The Greens/EFA Group. She is a bit nervous about her 'first' elections.
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Online introduction for new staff
Introductiebijeenkomst
- Online introduction for new staff
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New language proficiency requirements for new PhD candidates (starting trajectory from 1 September 2024 onwards)
Research
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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The new leave system explained
Since 1 January 2020 - with the transition to the Dutch Civil Code - the system of writing off leave has changed. When you take leave, the system automatically writes off the hours that fall due first.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
- What's New?! Fall 2020 Lecture Series
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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New elections student section Humanities Faculty Council
Organisation
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New Foundations for Separation Logic
PhD defence
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These are the new student members of our Faculty Council
Organisation
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Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group
Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Group for the best scholarly publication in the field of Italy Studies in Dutch or Flemish academia.