Together with its project partners Deutsche Welle, castlabs, and G&L, Fraunhofer FOKUS is developing practical technical solutions for “media provenance” and investigating how relevant trust information can be presented in a way that is understandable to different groups of people: on the one hand, for media consumers to enable transparent classification of content, and on the other hand, for editorial teams and other professional stakeholders to efficiently and systematically incorporate trust considerations already during media production.

Strengthening cyber resilience is firmly established as a goal and strategic priority of the German federal government: in the strategic research field of security and defense research within the High-Tech Agenda Germany, as well as in the BMFTR’s recently published key issues paper on cybersecurity research. The BMFTR's new grant initiative is therefore titled “Disinformation – Recognize. Understand. Defend.“