Dear all,

As many of you know already, this year the Web Conference https://www2018.thewebconf.org will feature an alternate track on *Journalism, Misinformation, and Fact Checking*, jointly organized by Kristina Lerman, Takis Metaxas, and me.

We are happy to announce that the final program is up on the website:

https://www2018.thewebconf.org/program/misinfoweb/

Aside from the twelve accepted research presentations, we are particularly happy to announce that we have assembled an exciting panel. See below for more information about it.

We hope to see you in Lyon, and if you have any question feel free to reach out at misinfochairs@www2018.thewebconf.org

Cheers,

Giovanni, Kristina, and Takis

*The effects of “Fake News” on Journalism and Democracy* *Online propaganda and misinformation appeared along with the first search engine in the mid-90’s and it became harder to detect in the last decade with the development of social media applications. Yet, in the last few years it spread widely in the form of the so-called “fake news”, falsehoods online formatted and circulated in such a way that a reader might mistake them for legitimate news articles. How big of a problem is it, how technology and policy can help us address it, and what are the implications for Journalism and Democracy?*

- Daniel Funke https://www.poynter.org/person/dfunke (Poynter Institute) - Katherine Maher https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Katherine_(WMF) (Wikimedia Foundation) - P. Takis Metaxas http://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmetaxas/ (Albright Institute for Global Affairs, Wellesley College) – Moderator - An Xiao Mina https://about.me/anxiaostudio (Credibility Coalition and Meedan) - Soroush Vosoughi http://soroush.mit.edu/ (MIT Media Lab)