The project CALYPSO will create a crowdsourcing environment for citizens to volunteer to combat media manipulation. It will combine the respective strengths of the general public, journalists, editors, experts, and fact-checkers. The latter will collaborate in order to early detect and fact-check suspicious news circulating on the Internet, thus exposing and disclosing disinformation campaigns and messages in real-time, and quickly restoring the truth to minimize the impact of fake news on society. They will benefit from a dedicated tool, whose prototype will be designed and developed for the purposes of the project. The project’s concept will be tested in two European partner countries (Greece and Poland), selected because of their lack of substantial means allocated to fact-checking, and will initially focus on emerging disinformation trends relevant to the countries concerned (Greek-Turkish relations, health). It will involve small-scale media organisations, which are the ones which suffer the most from the lack of fact-checking resources. It will generate research activities and media literacy activities, available to EDMO. Partners (University of Lorraine, France, University of Athens, Greece, University of Economics Katowice, Poland) have complementary specialties in media and journalism, interactive environments and design, computer science. Four small-scale media organisations also join the consortium.

October 2021 – December 2022