Big Data
for Smart Society

There was a lot of interest in GATE’s participation in this year’s edition of the event meeting ideas, people and companies “Tuk-Tam Hive 2023”. It was held on September 19 at the Inter Expo Center in Sofia.

For a fourth consecutive year, GATE Institute will be part of the meeting of ideas, people and companies at Tuk-Tam Hive 2023. The event will take place on September 19 at the Inter Expo Centre in Sofia.

Researchers from the GATE Institute have produced a research paper using responses to the European Commission’s Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation (CoP) published by Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and Twitter, in January 2023. This is the first analysis for Bulgaria of the implementation of commitments under the Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation of Very Large Online Platforms (VLOP’s) & Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSE). It is produced in the framework of the BROD project (for establishment of a Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory for Digital Media) coordinated by GATE. In it, the researchers warn about European elections 2024.

GATE presented the new Master’s program “Big Data Technologies”, a joint initiative of the Institute and FMI at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, at an information event on August 31, 2023.