Find and connect disinformation research worldwide
The Disinformation Research Atlas is now our central, continuously evolving directory of research projects and individual researchers. Its searchable entries and interactive map help make expertise discoverable, connect complementary research and support collaboration across institutions, disciplines and countries.
The Atlas is open to the global community, not only to participants in the Dresden workshop. Researchers can add a project or register independently, even if they are not currently affiliated with a research project.
How to add your project or researcher profile
Open the Research Atlas and use the contribution form. Enter your email address to receive a six-character verification code, then describe your project or your individual research interests, location, participating organisations and relevant links. You can request a new code to update your information later. You choose whether your contact email is displayed publicly.
Help make the community visible: contribute your work, invite colleagues to join and use the Atlas to discover potential collaborators. The more accurately researchers describe their capabilities and interests, the more valuable the directory becomes.
Where it began: Dresden 2026 research ecosystem snapshot
The table below preserves the initial workshop-grounded research landscape assembled from presentations, contributor feedback and contextual follow-up. It documents how the mapping effort began; it is not the current directory, not an exhaustive census, and does not establish that every listed organisation formally partners with or endorses Disinformation Space. For current entries and additions, consult the Research Atlas.
| Project | Research focus | Represented organisation | Source status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CleanFeed | Media provenance and authenticity | Deutsche Welle | Presented in Dresden |
| DeMasKI | Rhetorical manipulation, interpretable detection | University of Technology Nuremberg; University of Bamberg; GI; iRights.Lab | Presented in Dresden |
| DeMuKo | Multilingual vulnerability and information literacy | DIPF | Presented in Dresden |
| kuKI | Culturally sensitive multilingual fact-checking | FZI | Presented in Dresden |
| SONAR | Disinformation in podcasts and online audio | Leibniz Institute for Media Research / HBI | Presented in Dresden |
| SOURCE | Web-scale observability of disinformation campaigns | University of Passau | Presented in Dresden |
| VITraDes | Transparency of AI use in journalism | University of Tübingen | Presented in Dresden |
| MORGEN | Coupled disinformation and health-crisis dynamics | University of Lübeck contributors | Briefly presented; expanded after workshop |
| Im:DIS | Implicit disinformation and epistemic effects | Bielefeld University; University of Lübeck | Contributor-proposed follow-up |
| Re:DIS (SPP 2573) | Interdisciplinary disinformation research programme | DFG-funded network | Contextual research network |
Complementary tools and operational perspectives
The workshop also connected different kinds of contributions: RogueGPT and JudgeGPT for controlled stimulus generation and human evaluation; OPSCI / SPINE for propagation and observability; CORRECTIV for professional fact-checking; PEC for ecosystem development in France; and Ukrainian perspectives on institutional and civil-society resilience. These are not all research projects of the same kind, which is precisely why the Atlas supports a broader view of the community.
Contribute to the living Atlas
If your project is missing, your research focus has evolved or you want to make your expertise discoverable, please contribute directly to the Atlas rather than requesting an update to this historical table.
Background: From Prompt to Propaganda — Workshop Report, Ecosystem Cartography and Research Agenda (Zenodo, 2026).