On Monday 15/12/2025, EDMO BELUX welcomed Babette Hermans for a webinar on how fact-checks circulate across social media platforms, who they actually reach, and what current patterns of engagement reveal about the effectiveness of dissemination strategies
The lecture was hosted by Sabri Derinöz. Enjoy the full recording below and subscribe to our newsletter to learn about our future events.
Babette Hermans is a PhD researcher at the KU Leuven under guidance of Prof. Michaël Opgenhaffen and Prof. Peter Van Aelst. She is working on the iBOF PolKnow project, which focuses on how young adults acquire knowledge about politics and how specific interventions could enhance that knowledge. In this context, she focuses on the impact of fact-checks on political knowledge. Her expertise lies in fact-checking effectiveness research, as well as quantitative research and misinformation.