Program at a glance

22.9.2026 9am-6pm

Room: BAR/I88/U

Language: English

TimeSessionSpeakers / Contributions
09:00 – 09:10Welcome and OpeningFrom Prompt to PropagandaWorkshop Chairs
09:10 – 09:45Opening Keynote – The Media PerspectiveCaroline Lindekamp, CORRECTIV (t.b.c.)
09:45 – 10:30Germany – Building a National Research EcosystemMaja Denisova and representatives of German projects and initiatives
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break and Poster SessionScientific posters and networking
11:00 – 11:20France – From Research to Operational CapabilitiesJean-Luc Gibernon, Pole d’Excellence Cyber / Sopra Steria, and further contributors
11:20 – 11:35Scientific Talk – Disinformation in Urban CrisisSandrine Turgis, Leandre Lebon – AI-Generated Disinformation in Times of Urban Crisis: Lessons from the Rival Youth Groups Case in North Holland
11:35 – 12:00Ukraine – Lessons from the Frontline of Information WarfareAnatolii Marushchak
12:00 – 12:10Scientific Talk – Is Technology Enough?Peter Schoo – More Regulation, Please: Technical Privacy Protection Alone Can Only Partially Limit Democratic Harm from Microtargeting – A Position Statement
12:10 – 12:30Panel – From National Ecosystems to European ActionMaja Denisova, Jean-Luc Gibernon, Anatolii Marushchak, Peter Schoo
12:30 – 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00Hands-on – Can You Spot It? Can You Create It?JudgeGPT challenge + team-based creation of disinformation from current real news
15:00 – 15:10Scientific Talk – Building InfluenceAlexander Loth, Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl – [GenTool] as Agentic Infrastructure: Seeding Cross-Lingual Misinformation Simulations and Red-Teaming Social Media Agents
15:10 – 15:20Scientific Talk – Spreading InfluenceJordan Ricker, Clement Benesse, Darius Beucler – From Peripheral Seeding to Systemic Contamination: Multi-Vector Monitoring of Information Propagation
15:20 – 15:30Joint Discussion – Infrastructure to PropagationSpeakers + audience
15:30 – 16:30Coffee Break and Scientific Poster SessionAll scientific contributions
16:30 – 16:55Live Challenge – Real or Fake?Three participant teams present their real and manipulated news; audience votes and teams reveal their strategies
16:55 – 17:15Expert Survey – From Experience to EvidenceInteractive community survey: definition, ecosystem mapping, gaps and roadmap
17:15 – 17:30Scientific Talk – Understanding Human VulnerabilityAlexander Loth, Martin Kappes, Marc-Oliver Pahl – Interrupting the Chain: Human Perception of AI-Generated Disinformation Through a Kill Chain Lens
17:30 – 17:40Scientific Talk – Detecting InfluenceMaged Mortaga, Marvin Sieger, Moritz Goeke, Andre Calero Valdez – Not All Errors are Equal: Comparing Humans and LLMs on Detecting Argumentative Flaws in Misinformation
17:40 – 17:50Scientific Talk – Language as a WeaponMaurice Langner – Scalar Evaluative Expressions and Their Manipulative Use in LLM-Generated Text
17:50 – 18:00Joint Discussion and ClosingFrom manipulation and detection to the workshop roadmap
18:00End of Workshop