{"id":212616,"date":"2026-05-12T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-to-study-claim-making-and-fact-checking\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:00:10","slug":"ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-to-study-claim-making-and-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-to-study-claim-making-and-fact-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"IST faculty member awarded fellowship to study claim-making and fact-checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/information-sciences-and-technology\/story\/ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-study-claim-making\">IST faculty member awarded fellowship to study claim-making and fact-checking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/information-sciences-and-technology\/story\/ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-study-claim-making\">https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/information-sciences-and-technology\/story\/ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-study-claim-making<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 08:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.psu.edu\">www.psu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dongwon Lee, a professor from Penn State&#8217;s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has been awarded a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Germany.<\/li>\n<li>During his fellowship from July to September, Lee will focus on studying misinformation on a global scale and the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in identifying false information online.<\/li>\n<li>The research aims to understand how false or misleading information spreads and how verification efforts evolve across different regions and languages.<\/li>\n<li>Lee will examine how generative AI influences the creation of claims and the activities of fact-checkers, leveraging a dataset of about 200,000 fact-checked claims from across the world in 39 languages.<\/li>\n<li>The goal of the research is to enhance the ability of fact-checkers, journalists, and government leaders to understand and combat misinformation worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>The fellowship reflects Lee&#8217;s contributions to addressing urgent challenges related to misinformation and AI, representing Penn State\u2019s commitment to ethical AI innovation and discovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IST faculty member awarded fellowship to study claim-making and fact-checking https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/news\/information-sciences-and-technology\/story\/ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-study-claim-making Publish Date: 2026-05-12 08:33:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/psu-gatsby-files-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/16_9_1000w\/public\/2026\/03\/dongwon-lee_ist_2026.jpg?h=02779632&itok=klTczWDp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-212616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212620,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212616\/revisions\/212620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}