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Useful reference for understanding EU regulatory approaches to information integrity and disinformation, which increasingly intersects with AI governance concerns around AI-generated content and algorithmic systems.
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This European Commission page details EU-funded projects aimed at combating disinformation, covering initiatives that support research, fact-checking, media literacy, and information integrity across Europe. It represents part of the EU's broader regulatory and policy framework for governing online information ecosystems, including efforts tied to the Digital Services Act.
Key Points
- •Catalogs EU-funded initiatives targeting disinformation through research, civil society, and technology-based interventions
- •Reflects the EU's multi-stakeholder approach to information integrity combining regulation, funding, and public awareness
- •Connected to the Digital Services Act framework requiring platforms to assess and mitigate disinformation risks
- •Supports media literacy and fact-checking organizations as part of democratic resilience strategy
- •Relevant to AI governance as AI-generated content and algorithmic amplification are emerging disinformation vectors
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Funded projects in the fight against disinformation
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# Funded projects in the fight against disinformation
## Existing projects
Horizon 2020, the current research and innovation programme, has mobilised significant resources in addressing information veracity for social media and media. The Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis ( **[SOMA](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825469)**) along with other EU-funded projects ( **[PROVENANCE](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825227), [SocialTruth](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825477), [EUNOMIA](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825171), [WeVerify](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825297)**) provide a springboard for the social media sector to steer an understanding of its dynamics and the relationship between social media and other sectors.
The observatory has already gathered a significant number of [resources and analysis](https://www.disinfobservatory.org/investigations/) around coronavirus “infodemic” and disinformation-related knowledge. These proposed solutions take the form of various types of projects including: a platform for content verification; fact-checking tools; a methodology for the socio-economic impact assessment of disinformation; strategies and actions to increase media literacy, analyse legal roadblocks and community-based self-regulation aspects; a repository of disinformation-related knowledge.
The **[HERoS project](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101003606)**, for example, improves the efficiency of the response to the virus outbreak. It aims to help responders to public health emergencies make informed decisions. To this end, the project is developing a new method for categorising and filtering information from social media to better counter coronavirus rumours and misinformation.
Several other ongoing projects under Horizon 2020 (Societal Challenge 6 and the Science with and for society sections) have adjusted their activities and included coronavirus-related disinformation in scope. For instance, the project **[Co-Inform](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/770302)**, working on tools to foster critical thinking and digital literacy for a better-informed society, has already published on [Misinformation and COVID-19](https://coinform.eu/misinformation-and-covid-19/). The **[QUEST](https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/824634)** project, working on quality and effectiveness in scienc
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