Regulatory Solutions to MitigatE online DISinformation (REMEDIS)

Design automated means that question the origin and the integrity of a piece of information and reconstruct its information flow in a verifiable yet privacy-preserving manner. Provide innovative regulatory frameworks and legally compliant socio-technical solutions to counter online disinformation and its effects. Analyse legal instruments that can regulate the phenomenon of fake news and balance them with users’ freedom of expression.

The project at a glance

Start date:

01 Jun 2022
Duration in months:

48
Funding:

Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) / Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.–FNRS)
Principal Investigator(s):

Gabriele LENZINI

About

REMEDIS is an interdisciplinary project combining research in digital law, social and communication science, history, and computer science. It aims to provide innovative regulatory frameworks and legally compliant socio-technical solutions to counter online disinformation and its effects. The project intends to complement this regulatory arsenal with training modules in media education based on an understanding of the effects of media literacy skills (or incompetence) and behaviours on the spread of disinformation. REMEDIS intends to analyse the possible legal instruments that can regulate the phenomenon of fake news and to balance them with users’ freedom of expression. It also aims to design automated means that question the origin and the integrity of a piece of information and reconstruct its information flow in a verifiable still privacy-preserving manner. The project will also develop a large comprehensive study of (dis)informational practices in order to anchor the proposed solutions in the practices and behavior-determining factors of the actors (individuals, platforms, media). Lastly, REMEDIS aims to provide representations of this automated reasoning so that it can be easily understood by humans, like social media users.