2025-09-05 –, Room 3 (by the kitchen)
Language: English
Forms of information manipulation, such as disinformation and manipulative narratives, pose a threat to free discourse in democratic societies. Beyond verifying factual accuracy, newsrooms must also be able to identify and categorize a wider range of manipulation techniques in order to uphold journalistic quality and inform the public about such phenomena.
In this interactive workshop, Julian Neylan (Alliance4Europe) and Timo Lenk (TU Dortmund) explore how (foreign) information manipulation takes shape and introduce practical analytical frameworks from the defender community for recognizing and countering these techniques.
Disarm-Framework: https://disarmfoundation.github.io/disarm-navigator/
OpenCTI: https://filigran.io/solutions/open-cti/
Timo Lenk is a researcher at the Institute and School of Journalism at TU Dortmund University, working on a European project on strategic information manipulation. He earned his PhD in Communication Studies at the University of Greifswald, where he also taught in the Master’s program in Organizational Communication. His work focuses on information manipulation, strategic narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches to communication research.
Julian Neylan works with DISARM as a trainings developer and in further developing the frameworks. He previously developed media literacy tools and has several research publications on online influence in outlets like Nature and World Medical & Health Policy.