749 search results for “fake news disinformation” in the Staff website
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Anna Smulders
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Fake News and Disinformation
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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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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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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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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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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LDE AI Mixer on disinformation and fake news
Leiden AI Week
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Human rights should help fight disinformation
Professor of Media Law and Information Society Tarlach McGonagle is concerned about the increase in online disinformation and hate speech. He argues that human rights should guide new policies for the online world. McGonagle will give his inaugural lecture on 9 May.
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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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Jill Jeffery
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem van Rooijen
Faculty of Humanities
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Addie de Moor
Science
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Willem Koetsenruijter
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
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YAL Outreach Grants to tackle disinformation
Leiden psychologists receive an Outreach Grant from the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) to talk about facts and fables in their field of research. Marieke Bos, Lara Wierenga, Marit Ruitenberg and Sanne Willems will receive up to €1000 to realise their project.
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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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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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Disinformation and the law: lecture by Michael Klos on 30 June
Research
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Fia van Heteren
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Astrid Vandendaele
Faculty of Humanities
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Ashley Wilkinson
Faculty of Humanities
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How to factcheck fake news?
Alumni event
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Disinformation and the law
Lecture
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Miguel Mira
Faculty of Humanities
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Tarlach McGonagle
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Henning Lahmann
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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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.
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Research Workshop on the Legal Responses to the Disinformation Crisis
Conference
- 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 Staring
Faculty of Humanities
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Rik de Ruiter
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michiel van Groesen
Faculty of Humanities
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New campus map availabe
Organisation
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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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New Media Guide for Researchers
Research
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Online introduction for new staff
Introductiebijeenkomst
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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