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Conference Program

Budapest, CEU Nador Building, 26-27 January

26 January, Thursday

13.00 Registration

14.00 Opening Session

  • - Dávid Bartus - dean, Eötvös Loránd University
  • - Christine Buhagiar - AFP Europe Director on strategy
  • - Blanka Zöldi - chief editor, Lamkusz.hu

15.20 Keynote Session

  • - Laurens Lauer: Similar Practice, Different Logics – Fact-checking around the World
  • - Ferenc Hammer: When facts somehow just don't bite – Patterns of circumstances around low-impact journalism
  • - Debate

16.00 Coffee Break

16.30 Panel keynote

  • - Václav Štětka: News consumption, populism, and disinformation media ecosystems: lessons from the Illiberal Turn project

16.50 Panel I. - Fact-checking experiences is Eastern Europe

  • - Róbert Takács: Press Fake News vs. Fake News Press. Fake News and State-Socialist Information Policy
  • - Dariia Opryshko: Ukrainian fact-checking experience
  • - Fanni Tóth: Understanding the ‘Enemy’: Selective News Consumption and Political Polarization in Eastern Europe
  • - Q&A

18.00 Keynote Session

  • - Erik Karstens: Disinformation as a challenge for the journalistic profession

19.00 Dinner

27 January, Friday

9.00 Registration

9.30 Keynote Session

  • - Krisztina Stump: The European Commission’s work for fighting disinformation
  • - Bernd Holznagel: Press freedom and Fact-checking

10.30 Panel II. - Legal Aspects of Disinformation

  • - Gábor Polyák: Punishing lying - chance or risk?
  • - Gergely Gosztonyi, Gergely Lendvai: Deepfake’d - a form of political disinformation and the legal implications of deepfake
  • - Krisztina Rozgonyi: PSM content online as an antidote to dis-/misinformation: accountability regimes and platforms’ governance
  • - Q&A

11.30 Coffee Break

12.00 Keynote

  • - Stephan Ruß-Mohl: Disinformation, Cultural Hegemony and Journalism in the Attention Economy

12.30 Panel III. - Disinformation and Journalism

  • - Szilvi Német: “Are there liberal and conservative facts?” Audience perspectives on fact-checking journalism in Hungary
  • - Péter Bajomi-Lázár, Kata Horváth: Two media systems and journalistic cultures in one country in the light of Hungarian journalists' views on fake news
  • - Raluca Radu: Fact-checking in Romania: effects are issue and context dependent
  • - Q&A

12.30 Panel IV. - Data as a Tool for Disinformation

  • - Gábor Tóka: Election Polls in The News: What Is at Stakes, What Is New, and What Is Commendable Good Practice?
  • - Attila Bátorfy: The Use and Abuse of Data Graphics in Political Communication
  • - Q&A

14.00 Lunch

15.00 Keynote

  • - Renáta Uitz: Democracy and Truth

15.30 Panel V. - EDMO and the European approach(es) to fight disinformation

  • - Lisa Ginsborg: The EDMO universe and the role of EDMO Hubs
  • - Konrad Bleyer-Simon: National responses to disinformation: an overview
  • - Stanislav Matejka: ERGA's role in the EU's fight against disinformation
  • - Jana Soukupová: The Czech and Slovak regulation of disinformation
  • - Q&A

17.10 Coffee Break

17.30 Panel VI. - Disinformation and Media Literacy

  • - Wouter Frateur: EUfactcheck.eu. Students become factcheckers
  • - Miguel Crespo: Journalists train K-12 teachers and help them planning, implementing, and monitoring Media Literacy projects and fight disinformation: a Portuguese experiment (2017-2023) expanding across borders
  • - Q&A

18.30 Closing Remarks

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