The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) works to strengthen and enable collaboration among a multidisciplinary community of stakeholders tackling online disinformation. It brings together fact-checkers, media literacy experts, and academic researchers to understand and analyse disinformation, in collaboration with media organisations, online platforms and media literacy practitioners.
The second phase of EDMO focuses on consolidating and expanding EDMO as a European coordination infrastructure against disinformation, strengthening the cooperation between EDMO.eu and the national and regional Hubs, and supporting the production, visibility and exchange of fact-checking, research and media literacy outputs across Europe. It also reinforces EDMO’s role in election monitoring, policy-relevant research, training and public communication.
Project partners: European University Institute (EUI) (coordinator), Pagella Politica, ATC, Media and Learning Association (MLA), University of Aarhus, University of Amsterdam, Globsec (sub-contractor), Europe Media Lab (sub-contractor).
ATC’s role: ATC acts as EDMO’s technical partner, supporting the operation, maintenance and continuous development of EDMO’s digital infrastructure. In the second phase of EDMO, ATC is responsible for developing and managing the EDMO public web portal, providing access to the Truly Media collaborative verification platform, and developing and maintaining the EDMO repository of fact-checks. The repository aggregates and processes fact-checking outputs from the EDMO Hubs, enabling users to browse the latest fact-checks from across the EDMO network and search the archive through filters such as date, source, language, topic and keywords. ATC also developed a dedicated pipeline to support AI-assisted extraction of insights and the generation of analytics and visualisations, including disinformation narratives and stories, and the distribution of fact-checks by topic, country and other relevant dimensions.
