On February 11, 2025, Mme Rachida Dati, the French Minister of Culture, mentioned StatCheck as an example of innovative effort of a public media, specifically the RadioFrance group, to maintain integrity of information in the public space: https://www.culture.gouv.fr/presse/discours/discours-de-madame-rachida-dati-ministre-de-la-culture-evenement-proteger-l-integrite-de-l-information-a-l-ere-de-l-ia-paris-mardi-11-fevrie
Even the best things have an end! Nelly Barret has defended her thesis on March 15, 2023. The jury consisted of: Jean-Marc PETIT (Rapporteur, INSA Lyon), Olivier TESTE (Rapporteur, U. Toulouse), Fatiha SAIS (Présidente du jury, U. Paris Saclay), Katja HOSE (TU Wien), Stefano CERI (Politecnico di Milano), Fatemeh NARGESIAN…
On March 8, 2024, the Minister of Defense, Sébastien Lecornu, visited Ecole Polytechnique and its computer science lab LIX, to which the CEDAR team collaborates. Ioana Manolescu presented the SourcesSay project, as well as Oana Balalau’s work on propaganda detection, and Oana Goga’s work on tracking political ads, to the…
Ioana Manolescu participated to the debate “IA, fake news, and young people’s distrust of the media” on FranceInfo and Twitch, on Nov 22, 2023. Replay: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/medias/direct-intelligence-artificielle-defiance-des-jeunes-fake-news-les-medias-a-l-heure-des-grandes-crises_6199413.html
At the launching of the 2023-2024 radio year, on Aug 28, 2023, the CEO of RadioFrance, Sybil Veil, mentioned the ongoing collaboration between Inria, RadioFrance and Ecole Polytechnique. AI methods implemented in StatCheck can contribute to identifying trustworthy sources, and checking the veracity of claims made in the public space.…
Estelle Cognacq (RadioFrance), Editorial Director at FranceInfo, part of the French national radio broadcaster Radio France, described the collaboration with Inria at Radio Days Europe, a European conference of radio stations, in March 2023: https://radiodayseurope.com/news/we-built-this-city-on-data-and-rock-n-roll/
