# Event Details - **Event Name**: Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 03:00 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: A CASM workshop on their tools, methods, and partnerships, working on these critical social and policy issues.About this EventIntro/ Why it mattersThe digital environment is a critical site of real-world impact: a place where information manipulation threatens democratic processes, where AI systems carry their own emerging vulnerabilities, and where public perception and behaviour around policy and social issues are shaped and shifted at scale. Making sense of this requires both innovative tooling that can keep pace with the ever-evolving digital environment, as well as interdisciplinary knowledge of the vast social and technical domains it intersects with. In this session, CASM will give a practical presentation on how we build tools and methods to understand, and tap into, the ever-changing digital landscape, and on the interdisciplinary partners we work with to understand how it intersects with the critical social and political issues of our time.Who we are and what we doCASM Technology is a UK-based information integrity and digital analysis lab. We build tools and methods for interdisciplinary partners to monitor and understand information threats, online harms, and public sentiment and behaviour around critical social and policy issues. Our work spans multimodal data collection — including text, audio, video, advertising ecosystems and LLM chatbots — feeding into analysis that ranges from mapping narratives and coordinated behaviour, to detecting online harms and tracking platform enforcement, to monitoring emerging threats to AI systems themselves. We build semantic mapping and theme discovery tools that surface how issues and narratives evolve at scale; entity and network mapping that reveals relationships and influence pathways; validated AI classification across text, image, and audio; and LLM monitoring and auditing workflows for understanding model behaviour, including harmful or manipulated outputs.Who it's forThis session will be most relevant to anyone working at the intersection of these areas. We'd particularly welcome colleagues from political science and international relations, media and communications, sociology, science and technology studies, and informatics, as well as anyone working on the societal impacts of AI more broadly. We're keen to hear about related work in the room and to explore where our tools, data, or methods might support new research, partnerships, or other opportunities.CASM are a partner on the UKRI-funded Edinburgh-based WARSHARE project: https://warshare.ed.ac.uk)CASM CASM TechnologyAgenda🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PMOpen Event🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PMCASM is available for anyone interested in further discussion. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburgh/understanding-and-combatting-information-threats-and-online-harms/100001996981366023 - **Event Categories**: fitness, science-fair, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Violet Laidlaw Room, Crystal Macmillan Building - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Edinburgh - **state**: SC - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Violet Laidlaw Room, Crystal Macmillan Building - **lat**: 55.944292 - **long**: -3.1903013 - **full address**: Violet Laidlaw Room, Crystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Understanding+and+combatting+information+threats+and+online+harms&date=Thu%2C+10+Sep%2C+2026+at+02%3A00+pm&bg=4 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms being held? - **A:** Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms takes place on Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 03:00 pm at Violet Laidlaw Room, Crystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms? - **A:** Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms is organized by School of Social and Political Science. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Understanding and combatting information threats and online harms is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Edinburgh, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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