Dren Gërguri is a lecturer at the Department of Journalism, University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina” in Kosovo.
He has worked as a journalist since 2009. For a decade, he worked for the private television channel Kohavision (KTV); he is now a freelancer. He has held several media literacy trainings and anti-disinformation trainings, in Kosovo, Western Balkans, and other European countries.
He has lectured as a guest lecturer in several European universities, including Marburg University and the University of Wroclaw. His recent publications are “Political Communication in the Age of Social Media” (a book published by KAS) and “Kosovo: Political Crisis, One More Challenge Alongside COVID-19“, a chapter on “Political Communication and COVID-19”, a book published by Routledge.
His personal blog is: www.drengerguri.com.
Latest posts by Dren Gërguri
Audio deepfakes and AI tricks threaten elections around the world
The rights of the people whose voices and images are being appropriated will need to be more seriously protected.
Deepfakes and the risks from the growing use of video fraud
" ... [T]he truth is on the edge of "death" because, with the increase of deepfakes in circulation, it will be more and more difficult to understand what the truth is."
Understanding the damaging effects of Russian propaganda against NATO and Kosovo
"Particularly harmful and dangerous is the spread of this misinformation in countries where there is not much knowledge about the case of Kosovo."
From Kosovo 1999 to Russia 2021: The ‘cheapfake’ photo trend fuelling dangerous propaganda
"It is important to raise awareness of the widespread use of cheapfake images and to acknowledge that some governments use the practice to influence people's opinions."
