474 search results for “fake news disinformation” in the Student website
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Anna SmuldersFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.m.smulders@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
i.c.huliselan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1167
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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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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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Jill JefferyFaculty of Humanities
j.v.jeffery@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1513
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Willem van RooijenFaculty of Humanities
w.van.rooijen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2933
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Addie de MoorScience
a.c.j.de.moor@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Willem KoetsenruijterFaculty of Humanities
a.w.m.koetsenruijter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Peter BurgerFaculty of Humanities
p.burger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2099
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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 OpgenhaffenFaculty of Humanities
m.p.a.opgenhaffen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2099
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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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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 HeterenFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
f.van.heteren@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Astrid VandendaeleFaculty of Humanities
a.vandendaele@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Ashley WilkinsonFaculty of Humanities
a.a.wilkinson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
t.v.c.bousard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Miguel MiraFaculty of Humanities
m.mira@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tarlach McGonagleFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
t.e.mcgonagle@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Henning LahmannFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.c.lahmann@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
- News
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Research Workshop on the Legal Responses to the Disinformation Crisis
Conference
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Nico StaringFaculty of Humanities
n.t.b.staring@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Rik de RuiterFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
r.de.ruiter@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9411
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
m.van.groesen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2765
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Safe use of IT
Safe use of IT
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Minors
A minor allows you to develop your knowledge beyond the boundaries of your study programme, or to specialise further in your own field of study. You can follow a minor in Leiden and also in Delft or Rotterdam.
- What's New?! Fall 2020 Lecture Series
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- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
- New elections student section Humanities Faculty Council
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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These are the new student members of our Faculty Council
Organisation
- PCNI Research Seminars 2021-2022
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Bart Custers on BBC News about Uber’s Greyballing
In just over a decade, Uber has revolutionised how we move around our cities. The ride-hailing app was a game-changer: you just tapped your phone and a cab would find you. You even paid through the app. However, some of the Uber’s more controversial practices have triggered the interest of law enforcement,…
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eLaw publishes a new book on Law and AI
From deepfakes and disinformation to killer robots, surgical robots and AI lawmaking: AI (Artificial Intelligence) is changing our world. That raises the question whether this requires some form of regulation. At eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, prof. Bart Custers…
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Radio astronomers bypass disturbing Earth's atmosphere with new calibration technique
An international team of researchers led by astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) has produced the first sharp radio maps of the universe at low frequencies. Thanks to a new calibration technique, they bypassed the disturbances of the Earth's ionosphere. They used the new method to study…
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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles
After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky was involved from the start. ‘We know there is physics that’s missing and we aim to find it.’
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Output
Here you can find some examples of previous projects and output.
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Strong need to talk together about Ukraine
Everyone has been watching the attack on Ukraine, a war on the European continent, with a sense of foreboding. It will bring devastation, loss, suffering and worry and it raises questions. With these words, Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl opened the meeting on the war in Ukraine at Wijnhaven on Thursday…
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Nikki Ikani’s new book on crises and change in European foreign policy
Nikki Ikani, Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), has recently published her latest monograph 'Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy' with Manchester University Press.
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workshops ‘Changing Frames: Looking at the Pieter de la Court building in new ways’
Arts and culture
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
e.a.op.de.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4381