"Biography of Disinformation" Workshop Held in Prague

Workshop Report of the Project “Biography of Fake News with a Touch of AI: Dangerous Phenomenon through the Prism of Modern Human Sciences”, Held as Part of PragueSynapse 2025

From July 10 to 12, 2025, a workshop of the project “Biography of Disinformation with the Attribute AI: A Risk Phenomenon through the Lens of Modern Human Sciences” took place at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague. This workshop was part of the broader event PragueSynapse 2025 – 1^st Prague Workshop on Neural Networks and Reasoning.

The aim of the workshop was to present both theoretical and practical approaches to the study of disinformation in the digital space, with an emphasis on the use of artificial intelligence tools, particularly neural networks, fuzzy modeling, and explainable AI methods. The workshop was thematically aligned with the focus of the project Biography of Disinformation with the Attribute AI, which integrates modern technologies with the humanities and explores the spread of disinformation as a complex socio-technological phenomenon. Special attention was given to the potential of combining large language models with logical reasoning and how these approaches can be used to understand the mechanisms of manipulative content dissemination. The program included expert talks by leading researchers in machine learning, computational logic, and model interpretability.

The workshop contributed to the dissemination of the project’s research focus and partial results. The lectures and especially the subsequent discussions provided members of the research team from the Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling, University of Ostrava, with the opportunity to present their methods and gain valuable feedback and suggestions from international academic experts.

Participants discussed, among other topics, the potential for integrating fuzzy rules, explanatory techniques, and structural approaches in the analysis of disinformation, with repeated emphasis placed on the importance of model interpretability for applications in the social sciences. An important part of the program was the talk by project team member RNDr. Vít Musil, Ph.D., who provided technical insights into the integration of combinatorial solvers with gradient-based learning — a topic highly relevant to explainable modeling of digital manipulation and dynamic contexts, as defined in the project.

In addition to the workshop itself, project team members also actively participated in other lectures within the PragueSynapse 2025 program, further strengthening the project’s scientific grounding and opening up new opportunities for interdisciplinary and international collaboration. The knowledge and contacts gained will be used in the continued development of the project “Biography of Disinformation with the Attribute AI: A Risk Phenomenon through the Lens of Modern Human Sciences”. Within Key Activity 2 of the project, the new insights will be applied in both research activities and the preparation of scientific outputs.

Updated: 04. 08. 2025