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Dr Laurence Dierickx has a professional background in data and computer journalism. She holds a master’s degree in Information and Communication Science and Technology and a PhD in Information and Communication Science. Her dissertation explored the conditions of use of news automation in newsrooms; through a socio-technical lens and ethnographic methods from science and technology studies. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen (Norway), where she focuses on professional practices and processes in fact-checking from the perspective of developing responsible AI-based technology. She also teaches data and digital investigative journalism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and is a member of the ReSIC research centre. She has been accepted as a research fellow at the Digital Democracy Centre (x TrygFonden) at the University of Southern Denmark, where her research has focused on the use of large language models in fact-checking.

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