News
2023 Nov. 10 (conference):
D. Plikynas. Propagandos ir dezinformacijos socialinio poveikio tyrimas: metodai, modeliai, perspektyvos. XXI mokslinė kompiuterininkų konferencija VU Kauno fakultete. 2023 m. rugsėjo 28–29 d.
2023 Nov. 10 (conference):
I. Rizgelienė. Propagandos, dezinformacijos ir melagingos informacijos autorių bei skleidėjų aptikimas socialiniuose tinkluose naudojant mašininio mokymosi metodus. XXI mokslinė kompiuterininkų konferencija VU Kauno fakultete. 2023 m. rugsėjo 28–29 d.
2023 Dec 15 (software development):
Label Studio application adapted for annotations and rating.
2024 Jan 15 (collaboration):
A collaboration established with the EU Horizon project FERMI. FERMI consortium develops a framework to detect and monitor the way that D&FN spread, both in terms of locations and within different segments of the society, and to put in place relevant security countermeasures. FERMI Project – Fake News Risk Mitigator (fighting-fake-news.eu)
2024 Feb 29 (collaboration with Meta):
Research partner via Harvard Social Science One program.
2024 Mar 03 (public broadcasting):
Video program recorded and published at the Lithuanian public broadcaster (Lithuanian Radio and Television – LRT):
2024 June 23 (international conference proceedings):
Rizgelienė, I., Korvel, G. (2024). Comparative Analysis of Various Data Balancing Techniques for Propaganda Detection in Lithuanian News Articles. In: Lupeikienė, A., Ralyté, J., Dzemyda, G. (eds) Digital Business and Intelligent Systems. DB&IS 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 2157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63543-4_15
2024 Oct 20 (Baltic regional science collaboration team):
Establishment of collaborating international research team consisting of researchers from Vilnius University, University of Tartu and University of Latvia. Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian researchers have jointly created databases of propaganda and disinformation articles from each country in LabelStudio, where the articles are analyzed by noting the propaganda techniques, narratives and other features used.
Mutual agreement has been reached on a comparative study of propaganda and disinformation specifics in the Baltic region, with a view to a joint publication of a WoS Q1-2 paper, conference presentations, and potentially a joint application for a European project.
2024 Nov 6 (TV science programme broadcast):
Science popularization article (#1) published in LRT Science and Technology News:
2024 Nov 6 (science popularization article):
Science popularization article (#2) published in LRT Science and Technology News:
2024 Nov 16-18 (international conference in Zurich):
D. Plikynas. Systematic Overview of Machine Learning Applied for Propaganda Social Impact Research. 5th International Conference on NLP & Artificial Intelligence Techniques (NLAI 2024), Zurich, Switzerland. Proceedings: Volume 14 : Number 22 : Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT)
2024 Nov 19-Dec. 04 (fellowship under Horizon program):
D. Plikynas fellowship ( pan-European multidisciplinary networking) for the period of 2024 November 19 – December 4 was carried out at Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. Funded by the SoBigData++ programme under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No. 871042. The theme of the project was „Development of International and Interdisciplinary Agenda for Research of Social Impact of Propaganda and Disinformation Using AI”.
2024 Nov. 17 (collaboration with Google):
Collaboration with Google Cyber Security and Baltic regional representatives to use data from the Baltic region for propaganda and disinformation research.
2024 Nov. 12- Dec. 03 (regional survey):
Designing a questionnaire and conducting a survey for Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian populations (N400 each), collecting qualitative and quantitative empirical data to assess and model the social impact of propaganda and misinformation.
2024 Dec 24 (WoS Q2 published article):
Ruzaitė, J. (2024). Disinformation Crossing Spaces and Language Borders: A Contrastive Analysis of English and Lithuanian. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 23(2), 268–298. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.v23i2.39193 https://publicera.kb.se/njes/article/view/39193
2024 Dec 28 (public broadcasting):
Zaranka, P. & Korvel, G. (2024) “Propagandos atpažinimas lietuviškame tekste naudojant transformeriais pagrįstus, iš anksto apmokytus daugiakalbius modelius”, Vilnius University Open Series, pp. 154–159. doi:10.15388/LMITT.2024.22
2025 Dec 16 (WoS Q1 published article):
D. Plikynas, I. Rizgelienė and G. Korvel, (2025). Systematic Review of Fake News, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Examining Authors, Content, and Social Impact Through Machine Learning. IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 17583-17629, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3530688.
2025 May (public broadcasting):
Vaitkevičiūtė, E., & Korvel, G. (2025). Propagandos technikų lingvistinių požymių lyginamoji analizė taikant natūralios kalbos apdorojimo metodus. Lietuvos magistrantų informatikos ir IT tyrimai, 218.
2025 June 17 (international conference):
Rizgelienė, I., Vaitkevičiūtė, E., Korvel, G., & Zubaitienė, V. „A cluster-based linguistic analysis of propaganda techniques in Lithuanian news articles”, the 46th International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME46), 2025, June 17–21, Vilnius, Lithuania. https://www.icame46.flf.vu.lt/images/dokumentai/ICAME46_Book%20of%20abstracts%20updated%2015%2006.pdf
2025 September 17 (international seminar):
N. Maliukevičius, D. Plikynas, I. Rizgelienė. Seminar at GSSC (Tarptautinių procesų analizė | Geopolitikos ir saugumo studijų centras, GSSC (buvęs „Rytų Europos studijų centras“). September 17, 2025.
2025 September 25-26 (presentation in the national conference)
Greta Dovidaityte, Gražina Korvel. Automatinis propagandos klasifikavimas lietuviškuose naujienu˛ straipsniuose. In conf. „Computer Days – 2025“, 2025 September 25-26, Šiauliai. https://www.liks.lt/en/coda-2025/
2025 October 2-3 (international conference in Vilnius):
Vilma Zubaitienė, Nerijus Maliukevičius, Ieva Rizgelienė. Analysis of the propagandistic text (propagandinių tekstų analizė). 30th international scientific conference of Jonas Jablonskis Language and Linguistics: Continuity of Tradition and Emerging Trends. October 2–3, 2025, Vilnius Web link
2025 October 5 (science popularization article):
I. Rizgelienė, V. Zubaitienė, V. Marcinkevičius, N. Maliukevičius (2025) Vilniaus universiteto tyrėjai pirmieji regione fiksuoja nematomą informacinio karo pusę. SPECTRUM, Vilnius University. 2025 | ruduo
2025 October 9 (national TV broadcast):
I. Rizgelienė, N. Maliukevičius, D. Plikynas. LRT broadcast Labas rytas, Lietuva – Mediateka – LRT
2025 October 10 (Award)
I. Rizgelienė became a finalist in the Researchers Grand Prix 2025 https://www.tyrejugrandprix.lt
2025 October 11 (seminar):
D. Plikynas. Social Impact of Propaganda and Disinformation in the Baltic States: A Comparative Empirical Assessment. Seminar „Media Literacy Workshop: how to recognise and combat misinformation”. Atheist federation, Vilnius. EU Project „DECIDE“.
2025 October 29-30 (international conference in Madrid, Spain):
D. Plikynas. Comparative Mapping of the Propaganda Warfare Ecosystem in the Frontline Baltic States: Propaganda Techniques, Social Polarization, and Echo Chambers European Congress on Disinformation and Fact Checking. October 29–30, 2025, Madrid, Spain.
2025 October 29-30 (international conference in Madrid, Spain):
I. Rizgelienė. Automated Propaganda Detection in a Low Resource Languages: limitations, challenges and opportunities. European Congress on Disinformation and Fact Checking. October 29–30, 2025, Madrid, Spain.
2025 October, 3 (submitted article, WoS, Q1):
D. Plikynas, G. Dimdins, U. Kangur. (2025) Social Impact of Propaganda and Disinformation in the Baltic States: A Comparative Empirical Assessment. Submitted to New Media &Society.
2025 October, 13 (submitted article, WoS, Q1):
I. Rizgelienė, V. Marcinkevičius, D. Plikynas. Dual‑Input Deep Learning–Based Approach for Propaganda Narratives Detection in a Low‑Resource Language: A Case Study in Lithuanian”. Submitted to EPJ Data Science on 13 October 2025 UTC.
2025 October 29 (national TV3 broadcast):
D. Plikynas live interview in the TV3 broadcast „Dienos pjūvis”.
Gyventojus įspėja, kokie melai plinta ir kaip netapti dezinformacijos auka | DIENOS PJŪVIS
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WoS publications in preparation:
- ‘Human-Annotated Lithuanian Textual Corpus for Propaganda Topics and Techniques’ (submission in June 2025)
- ‘Transformer-Based Model for Propaganda Narratives Detection in a Low-Resource Language’ (submission in July 2025)
- ‘Propaganda social impact modelling using empirical datasets and a multi-agent simulation-based approach’ (submission in December 2025)
- ‘Comparative Mapping of the Propaganda Warfare Ecosystem in the Frontline Baltic States: Propaganda Techniques, Social Polarization, and Echo Chambers’ (submission in July 2025)
- ‘Similarities and differences of belief in Russian propaganda narratives among native versus Russian speakers – cross-national comparative study of the Baltic states’ (submission in August 2025)
- Understanding Susceptibility to Russian Narratives: A Cross-Baltic Study of Demographics and Social Media Behaviours (submission in June 2025)
Science study (book in preparation):
‘Propagandos ir dezinformacijos tyrimai: automatinis atpažinimas mašininio mokymo metodais, poveikis ir visuomenės atsparumas’ (in English: ‘Propaganda and disinformation research: automatic detection using machine learning methods, impact and public resilience’)