Future-Proofing Facts

A fake AI freelancer fooled major outlets. A summer reading list cited books that don't exist. Experts quoted by the BBC turned out to be synthetic personas. We are living through a verification crisis — and it's accelerating. This workshop tackles the hardest question in modern journalism: how do you confirm that anything is real in a shifting landscape? We'll map the threat landscape — from deepfaked Zoom sources and AI-generated documents to convincing fake institutional websites — and move from diagnosis to action. Participants will get hands-on with emerging verification tools and content provenance standards like C2PA that let you trace the origin and history of digital content

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Hilke Schellmann

Associate Professor of Journalism

NYU and Princeton CITP

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Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist and associate professor of journalism at New York University. Her research focuses on algorithmic accountability and the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly examining how AI systems impact employment, workplace surveillance, and fundamental questions of fairness in automated decision-making. Schellmann’s investigative work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and MIT Technology Review. She is the author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired—and Why We Need to Fight Back Now, an in-depth examination of AI’s growing influence in the workplace. Schellmann is developing new book projects and interdisciplinary research that bridge journalism and academic inquiry to investigate the real-world consequences of algorithmic systems. She is also the co-founder of the Initiative for Technology, Society and Journalism.

Loreben Tuquero

Staff Writer

PolitiFact

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Loreben Tuquero is a staff writer covering AI and misinformation for PolitiFact. She writes fact checks and stories debunking misleading statements and examining how generative AI impacts the information landscape. Previously, she was a reporter and researcher/writer for Rappler, the Philippines’ leading digital media company. She has trained hundreds of journalists and citizens in fact-checking claims and verifying AI-generated content. She is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.