At the invitation of the Ministry of the Interior and Sports Rhineland-Palatinate, Julian Bäumler, research associate and doctoral student at PEASEC, gave a talk at the Day of Prevention (Tag der Prävention) on 01.09.2025 in Mainz.
In his talk, he focused on PEASEC’s research on countering online hate speech and desinformation with user-centred technologies. Following an introduction to the objectives and innovations of the BMFTR-funded and PEASEC-coordinated research projects CYLENCE and NEBULA, he gave insights into recent empirical research on youths’ perspectives on indicator-based misinformation interventions and hateful content reporting. Moreover, he presented prototypes of a dashboard for the analysis of and communication about disinformation in the context of emergency situations and a browser plugin for the detection, documentation, and reporting of online hate speech to reporting centers or law enforcement agencies.
The Day of Prevention on the topic of was organized by the Coordination Center for Crime Prevention and the Division for Combating Crime of Ministry of the Interior Rhineland-Palatinate and had the topic ‘Artificial intelligence, disinformation, manipulation – prevention as a democratic task’. After an opening keynote by the State Minister of the Interior and for Sport Michael Ebling, there were inputs on the current state of the art in generative artificial intelligence, desinformation as a strategy for political influence, and a panel discussion with officials from the criminal police, public prosecution, intelligence agencies, and politicial education.
PEASEC’s research on hate speech and disinformation in the projects CYLENCE and NEBULA has been published in several scientific articles and can be found here: