FZI Live
Digitaltag 2026
Digital Security: Understand. Educate. Trust.
Digitaltag is a nationwide event that brings people together to make digitalization come to life. On this day, many exciting events and activities explain digital topics in simple, understandable ways. The FZI is also participating in Digitaltag with a workshop on fake news and AI and a breakfast discussion on data protection.
Anyone can participate in Digitaltag 2026 for free to learn more about digital technologies and try them out. Digitaltag is designed to help promote digital inclusion and bring people together.
Online Workshop
Whether on social media, in messaging groups, or on news sites: We encounter disinformation everywhere today. It rarely arises by chance: It is often deployed deliberately and is increasingly amplified by Artificial Intelligence. As a result, it influences not only political opinions and democratic processes, but also our social cohesion. Research such as that conducted by the FZI opens up new ways to expose manipulation and protect our (digital) public sphere.
This workshop demonstrates how current research analyzes disinformation and mechanisms of information manipulation, makes them easier to understand, and develops concrete solutions. We will present innovative approaches and tools from the FZI Research Center for Information Technology that help participants critically evaluate information. The focus is on the DisCoBoard project, which empowers young people to combat disinformation, as they are particularly vulnerable to its mechanisms.
Participants will find answers to questions such as:
- What exactly is disinformation?
- What role does AI play in the creation and distribution of content?
- How can we recognize manipulation before it takes effect?
- And how can AI be used to detect disinformation?
The workshop is open to anyone who wants to better understand disinformation. No prior knowledge is required.
The DiscoBoard project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ).
- Online
- 11:00 – 12:00 a.m.
5. ANYMOS Mobility Café
Discussing democracy and data protection over coffee, croissants, and rolls: That’s what participants can expect at a new edition of the Mobility Café as part of Digitaltag and the Tage der Demokratie. Over an inspiring breakfast, we’d like to discuss the new state government’s planned job cuts in data protection as well as the centralization of regional advisory services related to data protection and AI.
How can companies navigate this increasingly complex field in the future? How can we address the tension between the business sector’s growing “thirst” for data and the risks to citizens posed by opaque data processing practices? And how will these cuts affect the politically desired digital sovereignty? Together, we’ll get to the bottom of these and many other questions.
- TRIANGEL Transfer | Kultur | Raum
- 8:00-10:00 a.m.
