FACTCHECK Final Conference

The FACTCHECK project – Knowledge is Power: Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Diminish Fake News Spread and Susceptibility (LCF/PR/SR24/57010027) – funded by the “la Caixa” Foundation under the Social Observatory Research Call (2024–2026), represents the first large-scale research effort in Portugal to examine both susceptibility to and dissemination of false information.

The project included a questionnaire administered to a sample of 2,500 people from the Portuguese population, aiming to identify the individual and contextual factors that help explain why people believe in, engage with, and share false information.

By producing evidence on the social, cognitive, and contextual dimensions of disinformation, FACTCHECK seeks to inform public policies and contribute to more effective strategies to reduce vulnerability to false information. The main findings of the project will be presented and discussed at this final conference.

The program will include keynote lectures, oral communications from the FACTCHECK team, parallel sessions, and a poster session. The conference will also include roundtables addressing the current diagnosis of disinformation and possible responses in the fields of regulation, prevention, media literacy, fact-checking and platform governance.  

The FACTCHECK Final Conference invites submissions addressing misinformation, disinformation, fake news, susceptibility, dissemination, political disinformation, impacts, evidence-based responses, prevention, emerging technologies and regulation.