IBC2024 Accelerator Project: Design Your Weapons in the Fight Against Disinformation

A skilled and diverse team aims to develop a modern system where news organisations collaborate to identify disinformation and authenticate genuine reporting, restoring audience confidence in trustworthy information.

Design Your Weapons in the Fight Against Disinformation is one of eight challenges in this year’s cohort for the IBC2024 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by the BBC, Paramount Global, CBS News, ITN, Transmixr, Media City Bergen, YLE and other world-leading broadcasters and news agencies. The participants are Hand Identity, 2G Digital, and Open Origins.

The challenge

Disinformation poses a significant threat to...

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