An EU-supported event in Rome brought young creators, researchers, policymakers and citizens together to showcase how youth-led innovation, critical thinking, and ethical AI can strengthen society’s resilience against disinformation.

Disinformation isn’t new, but its speed, reach, and sophistication have exploded in the age of social media and AI. Our open-access paper, Mapping Automatic Social Media Information Disorder: The Role of Bots and AI in Spreading Misleading Information in Society (PLOS ONE, 2024), by Andrea Tomassi, Andrea Falegnami, and Elpidio Romano, offers one of the clearest maps yet of how this phenomenon works, and what we can do about it.

This one-hour webinar deep dive is essential viewing for AI developers, researchers, and policymakers interested in the intersection of LLMs, ethics, and digital literacy, and for anyone who believes the future of AI isn’t just about intelligence, but wisdom.

You are warmly invited to Thinking Through the Noise: A Socratic Dialogue on Information Integrity, an open session bringing together professors, students, educators, innovators, designers, and citizens to explore how critical thinking, media literacy, and AI can help us navigate the growing complexity of the digital world.