{"id":400830,"date":"2025-09-01T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belux.edmo.eu\/event\/edmo-belux-lunch-lecture-6-seeing-is-believing-visual-misinformation-at-election-time\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:11:11","slug":"edmo-belux-lunch-lecture-6-seeing-is-believing-visual-misinformation-at-election-time","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/belux.edmo.eu\/lb\/event\/edmo-belux-lunch-lecture-6-seeing-is-believing-visual-misinformation-at-election-time\/","title":{"rendered":"EDMO BELUX Lunch Lecture #6: Seeing is Believing: Visual Misinformation at Election Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"182\">Our next EDMO BELUX Lunch Lecture will take place on\u00a0<strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">September 15th, 2025, at 12:00-13:00 CEST<\/strong>. Join us for our webinar, where\u00a0<strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Nick Anstead<\/strong> and <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Bart Cammaerts <\/strong>will present preliminary findings of a study on exposure to visual misinformation during recent elections in several countries.<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"470\">Attendance is free but\u00a0<strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">registration is required\u00a0<\/strong><a class=\"_mizu194a _1ah31bk5 _ra3xnqa1 _128m1bk5 _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu18uv _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _syaz14q2 _ect41gqc _1a3b18uv _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj14q2 _9oik18uv _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l314q2 _1nrm18uv _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h16c2 _1053w7te _1ienw7te _n0fxw7te _1vhvg3x0\" title=\"https:\/\/events.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/2d7097a3-8bf2-419b-aad0-9d3d965e6055@7ab090d4-fa2e-4ecf-bc7c-4127b4d582ec\" href=\"https:\/\/events.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/2d7097a3-8bf2-419b-aad0-9d3d965e6055@7ab090d4-fa2e-4ecf-bc7c-4127b4d582ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\" data-is-router-link=\"false\" data-testid=\"link-with-safety\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\"><u data-renderer-mark=\"true\">here<\/u><\/strong><\/a><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"525\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"529\">What <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">visual misinformation<\/strong> appears in social media feeds when accounts follow partisan actors <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">during elections<\/strong>? This presentation introduces some preliminary findings and ongoing research objectives for a study conducted <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">across four national elections in 2024 in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and the United States<\/strong>. For the study, two dummy accounts were set up, each on four <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">social media platforms<\/strong>: Twitter \/ X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for each country. Each account would either follow influential right-wing or left-wing accounts, with the aim of training the algorithm to reveal visual misinformation that users might be encountering on the platform. Visual misinformation that appeared on their feeds was gathered and archived. The first analysis of the data gathered involved a content analysis, comparing country-specific dataset as well as <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">looking for evidence of visual disinformation created by artificial intelligence <\/strong>image generators. The findings in this regard are somewhat surprising. AI does play a role, but other forms of visual misinformation are also prominent in the dataset. Furthermore, the aim of AI generated visual misinformation is not always to mislead, but rather produce content that is obviously not real, but <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">plays into well-established and false political narratives and talking points<\/strong>. The presentation will also incorporate the preliminary results of a set of <strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">interviews with experts <\/strong>in each of the four countries.<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1993\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"1996\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Nick Anstead<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications\u00a0at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research focuses on\u00a0political communication practices and their relationship with political institutions, as well as the\u00a0evolution of political campaigns in comparative perspective. Additionally, he has researched the ways in which political ideas develop, circulate and are used in debate.<\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"2438\"><strong data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Bart Cammaerts<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Politics and Communication in the Department at Media and Communications of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research focuses on the relationship between media, communication and resistance with particular emphasis on democracy, media strategies of activists, media representations of protest, alternative media and counter-cultures, media histories, political theory and broader issues relating to power, participation and public-ness.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Our next EDMO BELUX Lunch Lecture will take place on\u00a0September 15th, 2025, at 12:00-13:00 CEST. 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