IST faculty member awarded fellowship to study claim-making and fact-checking
IST faculty member awarded fellowship to study claim-making and fact-checking
Publish Date: 2026-05-12 08:33:00
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- Dongwon Lee, a professor from Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), received a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Germany.
- The fellowship will enable Lee to study misinformation globally and explore the use of AI to identify false online information more efficiently.
- Lee will study global patterns in fact-checking, particularly under the influence of generative AI and AI-induced hallucination phenomena.
- Using a fact-checking dataset of about 200,000 claims in 39 languages, Lee aims to understand how false information spreads and how efforts to verify it evolve over time.
- His research aims to help fact-checkers, journalists, and policymakers tackle misinformation universally.
- Lee’s work will explore the impact of generative AI on the generation of claims and the work of fact-checking organizations.
- The fellowship is seen as a recognition of Lee’s contributions to addressing pressing issues regarding misinformation.
- Penn State is focused on human-centered, ethical AI innovation with the goal of providing AI-related knowledge and experience for its students, staff, and faculty.
