Updates Did you attend MisinfoCon or CredCon? MisinfoCon is offering small grants of $500 to $1,000 USD to support pilot projects, product development and other projects. Eva Ruth Moravec, who attended CredCon last year in Austin, used hers to buy equipment for a series of Data Tours. These tours introduce the Texas Justice Initiative's work to journalists, policymakers and other stakeholders in the Texas justice system. What would you use a micro-grant for? Around the misinformation space Deeptrace, an org developing tools to detect malicious AI generated synthetic media, has a weekly newsletter called Tracer that outlines and analyzes developments surrounding deepfakes/synthetic media, weaponized misinformation, computational propaganda and new cybersec threats.

Loughborough University launched a new research centre called the Online Civic Culture Centre for Doctoral Training to focus on misinformation, social media and hate speech online.

A_THORITIES is a tool developed at CredCon Austin in 2018 that allows journalists and researchers to better understand the origin of a hashtag by showing which accounts are making the most “authoritative” tweets about it. Events, funding & deadlines Some new opportunities: Twitter is looking to hire a Senior Policy Researcher on Safety, Social Issues & Information Integrity who will work “to increase the health of the public conversation, the integrity of information and customer trust across Twitter’s products and services.”

Knight Foundation and Gallup, who have been partnered for the past couple years researching the future of trust in the news media, are hosting a conversation on the topic with policy makers, academics, journalists and community leaders in D.C. tomorrow.

The DADI Foundation in the UK is conducting research into how technology affects democracy, and it’s looking for submissions of case studies for projects that use tech for democracy from around the world, including projects that support citizens’ access to credible info and counter the proliferation of propaganda and fake news. And lastly… do you have an event, a funding opportunity, a thought to share with the MisinfoCon community? Reply to this email with anything you'd like to add in the next newsletter. Subscribe