Presentation of Linguistic Research from the Project Biography of Fake News at a Conference in Budapest

Two members of the Department of German Studies, doc. Martin Mostýn and Dr. Milan Pišl, presented the results of their research conducted within the project Biography of Fake News with a Touch of AI: A Risk Phenomenon through the Prism of Modern Human Sciences, funded by OP JAK (CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008724), at the conference GeSuS – 31^st Linguistics Days of the Society for Language and Languages: Languages, Speech Communities, and Cultural Spaces.

This international meeting took place from 4 to 6 June, 2025, in Budapest and was hosted by the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church.

Martin Mostýn presented a contrastive analysis of expressive means of emotional manipulation in disinformation texts about climate change in his talk titled Desinformation im interlingualen Vergleich. Emotionale Manipulation aus deutsch-tschechischer Perspektive (“Disinformation in Interlingual Comparison: Emotional Manipulation from a German-Czech Perspective”). Milan Pišl presented the results of an analysis of Facebook posts containing economic disinformation in his contribution titled Wirtschaftliche Desinformationen – Umgang mit Fakten auf Facebook (“Economic Disinformation – Dealing with Facts on Facebook”).

The GeSuS conference was attended by around one hundred experts from across Europe. Notably, a significant portion of the contributions focused on future outlooks and suggested interesting approaches to addressing current challenges, particularly those posed by the massive employment of artificial intelligence and the digitalization of virtually all educational and research processes.

Updated: 20. 06. 2025