Is this workshop available on Zoom?

No, it is not available on Zoom. This is a purely in-person workshop to be held at Conference Room # 01-05, innovation 4.0, 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602.

Do you provide refreshment?

There is a 20-min tea break and light refreshments are provided.

Is this workshop free?

Yes, this workshop is free entry. However Registration is required. Please register here on Eventbrite.

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Wednesday, October 22

Workshop on Multimodal Misinformation: Memes, Models, and Participation

By NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community

Join experts from CityU, NTU, and NUS to unpack memes, models, and participation in the fight against multimodal misinformation.

Date and time

Location

Conference Room, #01-05, innovation 4.0

3 Research Link Singapore, Singapore 117602 Singapore

Speakers

Agenda

2:00 PM - 2:05 PM

Welcome

Asst. Prof. Kokil Jaidka (NUS)

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Memes as Shibboleths

A/P Marko Skorić (CityU)

This talk examines internet memes as a powerful mode of communication rooted in imitation, storytelling, and cultural transmission. Viewed as modern-day shibboleths, memes mark in-group identity and ...

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Multimodal Misinformation: Deepfakes and the Erosion of Political Trust

A/P Saifuddin Ahmed (NTU)

Ms. Roulan Deng (NTU)

This talk examines the growing challenge of deepfakes in political contexts, where artificially generated images, audio, or video can convincingly depict events or statements that never occurred. Our...

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Discussion 1

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Teabreak

3:10 PM - 3:20 PM

TRUST-VL: An Explainable News Assistant for General Multimodal Misinformation

Dr. Peng Qi (NUS CTIC)

This talk presents TRUST-VL, a unified and explainable vision-language model designed to detect multimodal misinformation spanning text, images, and cross-modal manipulations. Unlike existing approac...

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

Seeing Is Not Believing: Rethinking Online Visuals through Cultural Logics

Dr. Rituparna Banerjee (NUS CTIC)

This talk rethinks multimodal misinformation by emphasising how cultural logics and national myths shape the circulation and reception of online visuals. Drawing on the visual politics of women polit...

3:30 PM - 3:40 PM

Labels or Input? Rethinking Augmentation in Multimodal Hate Detection

Mr. Sahajpreet Singh (NUS SoC)

This talk explores new methods for detecting hateful memes, where harmful intent emerges subtly through text-image interplay. We propose a dual approach: optimising prompt structures and scaling supe...

3:40 PM - 4:15 PM

Discussion 2

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Highlights

2 hours 15 minutes
In person

About this event

Science & Tech • Social Media

From memes that act as cultural shibboleths to deepfakes that erode political trust, multimodal misinformation is reshaping how we interpret and engage with online content. Organised by the NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community (CTIC) under the Information Gyroscope (iGYRO) project, this workshop brings together scholars and researchers to explore the symbolic, technical, and societal dimensions of this growing challenge.

Speakers will examine memes as powerful in-group markers (Dr. Marko Skorić), the global political implications of deepfakes (Dr. Saifuddin Ahmed and Ms. Ruolan Deng), and new advances in multimodal detection systems such as TRUST-VL (Dr. Peng Qi). The discussion also highlights how cultural logics shape the reception of online visuals (Dr. Rituparna Banerjee), and how innovative methods in augmentation and prompt design can strengthen multimodal hate detection (Mr. Sahajpreet Singh).

By engaging with diverse perspectives, this workshop seeks to deepen our understanding of multimodal misinformation and spark dialogue on building more resilient and trustworthy digital ecosystems.

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NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community

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