vera.ai

Completing vera.ai – All About AI-Assisted Verification In this article, our colleagues Anna Schild and Jochen Spangenberg reflect on EU project ver.ai and the lessons we've learned from it.

We completed the @vera-ai.bsky.social project, funded by @ec.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social recently. Here, I look back on what was done and achieved - together with my @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy colleague Anna Schild who, with Eva Lopez, focussed on tool evaluation and testing.

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

So this is dystopian as hell and I can't believe this is real...

AI agents are now writing takedown blog posts to shame maintainers for not accepting agent-generated PRs.

github.com/matplotlib/m...

NEWS! A new study from @oii.ox.ac.uk and @oxprimarycare.bsky.social, carried out in partnership with @mlcommons.org and other institutions warns of risks of AI chatbots giving medical advice. More: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... 1/5

After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel | Janine di Giovanni It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned, says war correspondent and author Janine di Giovanni

“Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear. Policies are designed to make people more compliant, more submissive.”
@janinedigi.bsky.social writing in @theguardian.com Opinions.

OSINT Field Notes #4 Film geolocation, hybrid warfare, laptop farms, broken redactions, and the camera map that did not come from Brown.

Excited to share the first edition of OSINT Field Notes for 2026. There's a lot here, from film geolocations, hybrid war maps, laptop farms, broken redactions and surveillance map sources.

Read here: tinyurl.com/osintfieldno...

Here's some nuggets from the dispatches section 👇🧵

Wishing you, all our followers and your families, a happy holiday season - assuming you have one! If this isn’t the case: keep rocking!

Platforms recognize that disinformation is a big systemic risk. Now they should act accordingly.  – European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) The law is clear in the EU: disinformation is a systemic risk on the biggest digital services. However, platforms have...

Time to act! EFCSN calls on platforms to actively counter #disinformation

vera.ai has come to an end – its results remain accessible. More right here! VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

ICYMI: we now provide factsheets and more information about veraAI results & services. Tools that were developed and/or enhanced in the course of the project.
All related to #disinformation detection, #ArtificialIntelligence, #NetworkAnalysis, #DataScience & more.
More on the veraAI website!

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Slide from presentation with project highlights summarised

Today (in fact right now!) we’re having the final project review - meaning the final evaluation of the project work by external experts, doing this on behalf of the @ec.europa.eu

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On Tuesday, 2 December, from 2-6 pm, we welcome everyone interested to attend the "Meet the Future of AI" event in Brussels.
You can attend on location or online. Registration required. 👇
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vera.ai has come to an end – its results remain accessible. More right here! VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

There are now 23 factsheets of veraAI results and services that were developed and/or enhanced in the course of the project available on the project website.
Check 'em out! www.veraai.eu/posts/veraai... #disinformation detection, #ArtificialIntelligence, #NetworkAnalysis, #DataScience

vera.ai has come to an end – its results remain accessible. More right here! VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

There are now 23 factsheets of veraAI results and services that were developed and/or enhanced in the course of the project available on the project website.
Check 'em out! www.veraai.eu/posts/veraai... #disinformation detection, #ArtificialIntelligence, #NetworkAnalysis, #DataScience

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On Tuesday, 2 December, from 2-6 pm, we welcome everyone interested to attend the "Meet the Future of AI" event in Brussels.
You can attend on location or online. Registration required. 👇
www.eventleaf.com/Attendee/Att...

🎟️ Reminder: Register now to join next week's 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 #𝗔𝗜 event in Brussels or online! Paolo Cesarini, Chair of the EDMO Executive Board, will moderate session 1, titled #𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 #𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱👇

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Few days to go: on 2 December (2-6 pm) we invite you to attend the "Meet the Future of AI" event in Brussels, brought to you by a number of research projects and the @ec.europa.eu.
Registration is required for both personal and online attendance. 👇
www.eventleaf.com/Attendee/Att...

I will attend in person. Looking forward to meeting and chatting!

Just found: Answer given by Executive Vice-President Virkkunen on behalf of the @ec.europa.eu from 6 March 2025 featuring our project. A fair bit has happened since then - and we are proud to say we delivered on various fronts in the fight against #disinformation

We updated the list of project results, including links where you can find out more and get access to individual components that were developed or enhanced in the veraAI projects. They are now totalling 23.

More on the matter of X account origins

Advertising is Coming to AI. It’s Going to Be a Disaster. | TechPolicy.Press Daniel Barcay sounds the alarm on AI chatbots hiding advertising in conversations—and why this threatens autonomy and demands new rules.

In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.

Lessons from Building an Online Toolkit to Aid Open-Source Investigations - Nieman Reports Publicly available sources can be a tool for all journalists, writes Johanna Wild, an open source researcher for Bellingcat.

💬 Lessons from Building an Online Toolkit to Aid Open-Source Investigations

Publicly available sources can be a tool for all journalists, writes @johannawild.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com.

niemanreports.org/osint-open-s...

New location feature on X sheds light on accounts — but also has errors | CBC News Canadian researchers who track online misinformation and foreign interference are welcoming a new feature that reveals the location of an X account but warn that it still has glitches and its results ...

Where do they come from?!
New feature on X to reveal origins of accounts - flaws attached.

One week to go!
Still time to register!
Join us for the "Meet the Future of AI" series organized by several EU co-funded projects and the @ec.europa.eu.
it takes place in Brussels on 2 December. You can also participate online. Prior registration required 👇

One week to go!
Still time to register!
Join us for the "Meet the Future of AI" series organized by several EU co-funded projects and the @ec.europa.eu.
it takes place in Brussels on 2 December. You can also participate online. Prior registration required 👇

In case you missed it: still time to register for this event on 2 December in Brussels (participation possible in person - for a limited number of people - and online.)
With @titanthinking.bsky.social #AI4Trust #AICODEPROJECT #ELLIOT-EU @disinfo.eu @edmo-eu.bsky.social @euractiv.com @ec.europa.eu

Briefing: Good news on the AI slop front. No, really! Plus: detecting AI-generated images with SynthID, and advanced archival OSINT

Today on @indicator.media's (free) Briefing: A twinkle of optimism on the AI slop front as TikTok and Google roll out tools to filter and detect AI content.

I remain bearish about generative AI and info quality. But I’ll celebrate developments that increase user agency and platform transparency.

The "Key Frame Selection and Enhancement" Service (KSE) is back in action! Happy analyzing! 😀

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Dear users of our #verification plugin:
On Friday 21 November from 9 am CET, the "Key Frame Selection and Enhancement" Service (KSE) will undergo some maintenance work - and, as a result, be offline for some hours. It should be back in action later that day.

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Join #AI4Debunk, @titanthinking.bsky.social, #AI4Trust #AICODEPROJECT, #ELLIOT-EU and us to explore how #AI strengthens democracy and counters #disinformation!
Supported by @disinfo.eu and @edmo-eu.bsky.social.
Registration required: eurac.tv/9Yhh
Online or in person.
#EuropeanDemocracyShield, #DSA

vera.ai has come to an end – its results remain accessible. More right here! VERification Assisted by AI. R&D & innovation co-funded by the HorizonEU. Continuing WeVerify work. And much more!

In this article and the included factsheets, we are presenting a variety of tools and services that were developed or improved in the course of our veraAI project. We'll be adding more to this list (consisting of 15 items so far)over the course of the coming weeks.