Julia Angwin has covered the impact of technology on society for more than two decades. She has worked at the Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, founded Markup, and recently launched her new journalism project, Proof News, an organization that seeks to apply the rigor of the scientific method to reporting. The award-winning journalist will open the Global Disinformation Summit 2024 with an investigation that analyzed the responses of the top five artificial intelligence (AI) models related to this year’s U.S. presidential election. Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2 and Mistral’s Mixtral. The results will be presented at the IV Global Summit on Disinformation, where Julia Angwin will give the keynote address.

As a preview, Angwin told the Reuters Institute in an interview that “AI makes it easier to flood the area with misinformation.”. Y advirtió que el panorama actual de irrupción de la inteligencia artificial ha agravado la dificultad de acceder a información confiable. En ese sentido, Angwin abordará uno de los desafíos centrales que afronta hoy el periodismo: cómo how to build trust in the news in the midst of this polluted landscape. For Julia Angwin, part of the answer lies in transparency. And that is why her new journalistic adventure is called “Proof. Applying a rigorous statistical method is for the journalist a way to generate trust in the audience, and this is the way her new media builds the stories it publishes.

The Global Summit on Disinformation 2024 thus ensures the opening of a much-needed and rich debate on the impact of artificial intelligence on the generation of journalistic content and the challenge of regaining trust in journalism, which is declining year after year. These topics will be part of the different topics of the Summit, which will also provide a space to discuss the disinformation strategies that operated in this super-election year, or the innovative ways in which some media are applying verification techniques in native languages, as in the case of Ojo Público from Peru, or the interesting experience of the Odin project of Cuestión Pública, which uses AI to optimize the creation of current affairs content enriched with a context of investigative journalism.

The fourth edition of the Global Disinformation Summit will be held on September 18-19 this year. Interested parties can register for free at this link.

With more than 2000 registrations annually from 50 countries, the Global Disinformation Summit is a major event that brings together journalists, researchers, academics, fact-checkers, media and government representatives, civil society organizations, professors, and students. Over the years, the Summit has become an essential gathering in the global fight against disinformation.

The event is co-organized by the Inter-American Press Association, the Fundación para el Periodismo (Bolivia) and Proyecto Desconfío (Argentina).

The IV Global Summit on Disinformation is supported by the Google News Initiative. Accompanying the event are: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), IJNet and IJNet en Español, Medianálisis, Asociación Nacional de Prensa de Chile (ANP), Fundación GABO, Asociación Colombiana de Medios de Información (AMI), the Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas de Argentina (ADEPA), Bolivia Verifica and the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.