€3.9m data journalism project to build the tech to fight fake news

European research project to see how data science and other digital technologies can bolster's journalism's abilities in an era of fake news. With social media flooding us with information from multiple sources – many of which are of dubious origin – it is more important than ever that there is technology out there capable of filtering through the information to put together stories based on cold, hard facts. So it will be welcome news to newshounds in Europe – and elsewhere – that a new €3.9m European research project called Journalism and Leadership Transformation (JOLT) is to be launched to investigate technical, business, and ethical aspects of contemporary journalism. Funded for the next four years, the project will be led by Dublin City University's (DCU) Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo) and will see 15 PhD researchers hired to conduct the research.