Professor Gilad Abiri co-taught a summer seminar sponsored by Studienstiftung

Sub: The innovative interdisciplinary seminar “Fighting Fake News – Legal Safeguards of Truth? – Theoretical backgrounds, legal means, constitutional limits” was built on Professor Abiri's co-authored article, Beyond True and False: Fake News and the Digital Epistemic Divide.

On August 15 - 24, Professor Gilad Abiri taught a seminar on fake news together with Professor Johannes Buchheim from Philipps-universität Marburg.

The seminar was sponsored by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (The German Academic Scholarship Foundation). The German Academic Scholarship Foundation is Germany's largest, oldest, and most prestigious scholarship foundation, supported by funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and other governmental and non-governmental organisations. It provides funds for various academic programs, from summer school to doctoral studies, with a particular interest in promoting cross-disciplinary dialogue.

The interdisciplinary seminar “Fighting Fake News – Legal Safeguards of Truth? – Theoretical backgrounds, legal means, constitutional limits” provides an comprehensive knowledge about the frontier issues on Fake News. It covers the value of free speeach, social knowledge production and distribution, the mechanics of mis-/disinformation and the regulatory/legal approaches to Fake News. The seminar was built on Professor Abiri's article Beyond True and False: Fake News and the Digital Epistemic Divide (co-authored with Johannes Buchheim, forthcoming in Michigan Law and Technology Review), which examined the traditional account of the harm of fake news and explored the new phenomenon of digital epistemic divide. Read the pre-publication version of the article Beyond True and False: Fake News and the Digital Epistemic Divide by Gilad Abiri, Johannes Buchheim :: SSRN