Last November in Stockholm, the journalism and fact-checking community came together for Fojo Verify Day 2025, an important event focused on verification in election times and the growing threat of “slopaganda” – propaganda amplified through generative AI.

The event brought together expert voices, practical workshops, and forward-looking discussions about how newsrooms tackle misinformation and disinformation today.

At Truly Media, we were honored to participate in this flagship gathering hosted by Fojo Media Institute, where journalists and verification practitioners from across Europe explored the most current methodologies for combating manipulated content and maintaining trust in news coverage.

A highlight of the day was our interactive workshop led by Christos Gavalas and Spyridoula Markou, where we introduced the Truly Media platform as an end-to-end solution for newsroom verification workflows.

Participants engaged with the platform’s capabilities firsthand, exploring how technology can support collaborative evidence gathering, digital investigation, and structured verification even in the face of high-volume and rapidly evolving information streams.

Our session emphasized a core principle that guides Truly Media’s development: technology must evolve to meet real journalistic challenges, especially as emerging AI-driven disinformation becomes more sophisticated and ubiquitous.

Throughout the workshop, we demonstrated how Truly Media’s features help teams analyze content, organize findings, and work together efficiently – all while preserving transparency and editorial rigor.

Fojo Verify Day also offered a rich lineup of keynote presentations and expert discussions. Notable voices included Glenn Kessler, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading fact-checkers, and Derek Bowler from the European Broadcasting Union, who shared insights on collaborative verification networks.

These sessions underscored the urgency of strengthening journalistic verification practices, particularly in an election context (Sweden heads into an election year in 2026) where information manipulation poses risks to democratic discourse.

Events like Fojo Verify Day remind us that fact-checking isn’t just a technical challenge – it’s a human one, rooted in teamwork, training, and shared tools that empower journalists to find truth in complexity.

We extend our gratitude to Andreas Önnerfors and the Fojo team for the invitation and the opportunity to connect with colleagues committed to elevating verification standards across borders.

As the information landscape continues to evolve, we remain deeply committed to supporting newsrooms with technology that enhances collaboration, drives efficiency, and ultimately helps journalists deliver accurate, trustworthy reporting – wherever the story leads next.

Truly Media product manager and journalist, Christos Gavalas explains how the platform operates to participants

ATC’s fact checking consultant, Spyridoula Markou sets the stage for the exercise with key information provided to participating journalists

From 12 to 15 September 2025, Truly Media had the honor to gain exposure at IBC 2025 in Amsterdam, one of the world’s largest and most influential gatherings of media, technology, and content professionals.

The event showcased the latest trends shaping the future of media, with AI and trustworthy verification tools taking center stage.

At the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) stand, the veraai.eu consortium – including partners from across Europe – demonstrated an integrated suite of AI‑powered tools designed to support newsroom verification and counter disinformation.

As part of this ecosystem, Truly Media was featured as a key component in real‑world news verification workflows that help journalists, fact‑checkers, researchers, and civic actors navigate digital misinformation responsibly.

Christos Gavalas, our product manager took the opportunity to connect with media professionals from diverse backgrounds, showcasing how Truly Media’s collaborative verification platform works alongside advanced technologies like automatic keyframe extraction, deepfake detection, and machine‑generated text analysis.

These demonstrations highlighted how targeted AI support can accelerate verification while keeping human editorial judgment at the forefront, reflecting Truly Media’s mission to empower evidence‑based reporting and strengthen public trust.

Visitors were able to explore practical use cases that were dealt through the use tools that promote workflows for spotting and analyzing disinformation campaigns.

Being part of IBC 2025 not only reinforced the importance of cross‑industry cooperation in the fight against misinformation, but it also provided invaluable insights into how collaborative platforms like Truly Media can support newsrooms and fact‑checking teams around the world.

We were proud to contribute to a showcase that emphasized responsible innovation, practical technology adoption, and journalistic integrity.

Christos Gavalas, product manager of Truly Media, standing between Varvara Boboc (University of Amsterdam) and Pierre Fouche (EBU).

Christos Gavalas showing visitors the AI capabilities of Truly Media as a fact checking collaborative platform

Last week,the European Digital Media Observatory’s second training event was organized in Athens (December 8^th-9^th). During this 2-day event, fact-checkers and partners of the EDMO network got hands-on experience on how to analyze and verify digital content as it is distributed online with Truly Media, including tools to conduct a thorough analysis of active Twitter accounts.

In addition, media professionals from EDMO’s three newly launched Observatories who joined this event, had the opportunity to know more on other hubs’ actions on detecting and analyzing disinformation campaigns, at national or multinational level.

Last week, we were honored to participate in CEDMO’s International Conference ‘Europe tackles Information Chaos’ (CIC2022), which was held in Prague from September 22^nd to 23^rd,2022.

During this significant event we shared our insights on why Artificial Intelligence is important for fact-checking and presented the available tools and methods for journalists to tackle the disinformation phenomena. In specific, we highlighted how Truly Media can support the verification of social media content, and how access to in-depth Twitter analytics with TruthNest can support the identification of true influencers and the detection of trolls and bots, by profiling Twitter user accounts based on their activity, network, and influence.

Furthermore, leading experts and key stakeholders, including NGOs, academics, think tanks, practitioners, and legislative and technology actors also contributed to exploring a comprehensive range of topics, always highlighting the importance of protecting information ecosystems, democracy, social cohesion, and human rights.

Vera Jourova, Vice-President for Values and Transparency in the EU Commission stated that the continent is in a crisis situation, with the war raging in Europe’s borders and that what is needed is for Europe to give its best in order to put the information out, to show facts and to listen and talk to European citizens.

Whereas, Jocelyn Zablit, coordinator for the AFP fact-checking projects in Europe, spoke about the importance of media literacy. ‘We can do as much as we can as journalists to fight disinformation. But educators and other professionals also need to understand they have to teach children how to navigate the digital world when they are young’.

See more about our participation.

About Truly Media’s exploitation in CEDMO

We remind you that Truly Media is already used by CEDMO for the analysis and verification of digital content in real-time. In specific, CEDMO’s fact-checking community exploits:

• Advanced Search & Filtering capabilities
• Collaborative Content Organisation, Curation & Archiving
• Real-time Collaboration
• Digital content verification on the spot by using Reverse Image Search, Verification by location with Google Maps and Street View and a set of image analysis algorithms like Error level analysis (ELA) and Double Quantization (DQ) analysis
• Twitter content analysis with the in-depth Twitter analytics tool, TruthNest

A few days ago, we were honored to participate in this year’s EANA Spring Conference which focused on ‘Fact & Fiction during War and Covid19’ and share our views on flaming issues that the news and journalistic organizations face due to information crisis.

The event was organized by the Federal News Agency (FENA) (the government-owned national news agency of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity), from May 11th to 13th, and brought together leading news agencies from most European countries, including some of the world’s most influential media, such as France’s AFP, Germany’s DPA and the UK’s PA Media.

During the Conference, delegates of EANA had the chance to experience how:

• Truly Media is exploited within national and multinational fact-checking hubs to counter disinformation (EDMO, CEDMO and EDMO BELUX). In addition, how the collaborative platform supported the establishment of the first European Observatory against disinformation, where, amongst others, a community of more than 100 organizations worked together in collaborative investigations against disinformation, and three national centers of excellence in Italy, Denmark, and Greece were launched.

• TruthNest allows access to in-depth Twitter analytics, and supports the identification of true influencers and detection of trolls and bots, by profiling Twitter user accounts based on their activity, network and influence.

Last but not least, we happily provided details on indicative success stories of Truly Media and TruthNest implementations, like the ones of:

• European Science-Media Hub
• Amnesty International
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
• Fact Check Mongolia
• Indonesian & Philippines fact-checking networks
• the Media Development Foundation (MDF) in Georgia

See more about our participation here

A few words about our role in fighting disinformation and supporting investigative journalism

Since 2018, the EU has focused on disinformation as an evolving challenge, with a high potential to negatively influence democratic processes and societal debates. In fact, all member states acknowledged disinformation’s increasingly adverse effects on society and launched a detailed action plan to fight it. Within this framework, the EU has launched a Code of Practice on Disinformation together with roadmaps for implementation from partners in the private sector.

We are more than proud to be actively engaged in this action plan, and support fact-checkers, journalists and key stakeholders of the news and media sector, to better deal with the increased volume and complexity of online disinformation

When it comes to digital fact-checking tools, Truly Media, aims to help journalists better deal with the increased volume and complexity of online disinformation, assisting them with various fact-checking and verification tasks, through:

• the optimisation of their workflow
• the facilitation of collaboration
• the integration of multiple fact-checking tools
• the use of analytics
• time-saving and increased efficiency and effectiveness

We are very happy to announce that on June 13^th and 14^th the European Digital Media Observatory will hold its 2022 Annual Conference in Brussels. Reaching its second year of activities, this conference will be the opportunity to explore what the Observatory is doing and has done so far to better understand, detect, and tackle disinformation including in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and of the current conflict in Ukraine.

On the last day of the event (June 14th), there will be a training session, during which a live demo of our verification platform will take place, focusing on real-life examples, tips, and insightful discussions on dealing with and verifying digital content.

See more about the event & Register here

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As part of a European network of regional hubs, and in coordination with the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), two new multinational disinformation observatories were launched in Belgium (EDMO BELUX) and the Czech Republic (CEDMO), aiming to identify, research and prioritize the most critical sources and causes of information disorders in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and the greater Belux area.

We are very excited to announce that all parties have been given access to the Truly Media platform for the analysis and especially the verification of digital content, including in-depth Twitter user features.

These two hubs will bring together fact-checkers, media literacy experts, and academic researchers to fight disinformation, and will be linked to the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), which was launched last year by the European Union. In specific:

• CEDMO’s goal is interdisciplinary research into disinformation, including its detection using the elements of AI, strengthening digital and media literacy and the development of fact-checking platforms. It is also the first step in developing a European Centre of Excellence in AI. profiling
• EDMO BELUX conducts OSINT (open source intelligence) investigations on disinformation campaigns, develops and implements media literacy activities and delivers annual cross-community audience studies on impact of disinformation campaigns, as well as annual assessments of the effectiveness of platform responses to disinformation.

Useful Links

• Get to know TruthNest, an in-depth Twitter analytics tool which supports the identification of true influencers and helps with the detection of trolls and bots
• See more about CEDMO, EDMO BELUX and EDMO

Launched earlier this February, the Central European Digital Media Observatory (CEDMO) is an initiative gathering professional fact-checkers, researchers, AI specialists, and media literacy experts to provide the public and governments with the necessary means to verify information and counter disinformation in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland.

The project aims to:

• Develop and research technological and AI-based fact-checking solutions that will improve human-machine cooperation and fact-checking effectiveness
• Implement media literacy education and campaigns backed by research and analysis
• Cooperate with national authorities in monitoring digital media ecosystems and propose recommendations on how to improve disinformation regulation and related policy-making

Within this framework, we are very excited to announce that Truly Media was selected by CEDMO for the analysis and verification of digital content in real-time. In specific, CEDMO’s fact-checking community will be able to exploit:

• Advanced Search & Filtering capabilities
• Collaborative Content Organisation, Curation & Archiving
• Real-time Collaboration
• Digital content verification on the spot by using Reverse Image Search, Verification by location with Google Maps and Street View and a set of image analysis algorithms like Error level analysis (ELA) and Double Quantization (DQ) analysis
• Twitter content analysis with the in-depth Twitter analytics tool, TruthNest

See more about CEDMO here.

In the video below you can watch CEDMO’s presentation