{"id":212617,"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-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:00:12","slug":"ist-faculty-member-awarded-fellowship-to-study-claim-making-and-fact-checking-2","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-2\/","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), received a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Germany.<\/li>\n<li>The fellowship will enable Lee to study misinformation globally and explore the use of AI to identify false online information more efficiently.<\/li>\n<li>Lee will study global patterns in fact-checking, particularly under the influence of generative AI and AI-induced hallucination phenomena.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>His research aims to help fact-checkers, journalists, and policymakers tackle misinformation universally.<\/li>\n<li>Lee&#8217;s work will explore the impact of generative AI on the generation of claims and the work of fact-checking organizations.<\/li>\n<li>The fellowship is seen as a recognition of Lee&#8217;s contributions to addressing pressing issues regarding misinformation.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/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":212619,"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":[19],"class_list":["post-212617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212617"}],"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=212617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212621,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212617\/revisions\/212621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}