On March 20th, 2025, the TRUE Project team welcomed researchers from across the UK and Europe for an interdisciplinary workshop titled, ‘The Courtroom as a Linguistic Arena: Language, Law, and the Pursuit of Justice in Criminal Trials’. Hosted on Swansea University’s Singleton Campus, the event brought together scholars working across law, linguistics, psychology, and technology to examine courtroom discourse.   Incorporating extended Q&A blocks at the end of each session, th

A new report, co-authored by TRUE PI Yvonne , provides the first comprehensive analysis of how AI chatbots are reshaping violence against women and girls (VAWG) in dangerous new ways. The Report strengthens calls for Government action on AI chatbots in the Policing and Crime Bill. The report, Invisible No More: How AI Chatbots are Reshaping Violence Against Women and Girls , adds to the TRUE project's research on the broader societal impact of Artificial Intelligence. It fin

A couple of new papers can be found on our Publications page . TRUE PI Yvonne McDermott, PhD candidate Anne Hausknecht, and former TRUE postdoctoral research associate Dr Alice Liefgreen recently published a paper ‘ New Evidence, New Challenges: ICC Judges’ Perspectives on User-Generated-Evidence and Judging in an Age of Artificial Intelligence ’ in Oñati Socio-Legal Series. This research explores how International Criminal Court (ICC) judges perceive user-generated evidence

The TRUE project team now has a YouTube channel ! Please like and subscribe! Yvonne McDermott Rees, Nick Waters, and Kaja Kowalczewska participated in a symposium on "Leveraging technology to respond to civilian harm in war: Algorithms, OSINT and Strategic Litigation" at Queen's University Belfast School of Law from 6-7- November 2025. Nick Waters has delivered training to staff and students at Swansea University on 8 October and 18 November. Has also delivered workshops to B

It is with deep sadness that I share that Advisory Board member Professor William Twining died on 9 October 2025, at the age of 91....

We were delighted to recently welcome two new excellent colleagues to the TRUE project team! Nick Waters joined the team in September...

TRUE team members Rebecca Jenkins (PhD student) and Prof Nuria Lorenzo-Dus (Linguistics Researcher and PhD Co-Supervisor ) recently...

The TRUE project team is delighted to announce our upcoming workshop titled " The Courtroom as a Linguistic Arena - Language, Law, and...

TRUE team members Maryanne Brassil (Postdoctoral Researcher), Helen Qiao (Research Assistant), and Ruben Lamers-James (PhD student)...

TRUE PhD candidate Anne recently contributed a piece on "The Impact of Deepfakes on Trust in User-Generated Evidence” to a forthcoming...

We are excited to announce the launch of the TRUE Database on User-generated Evidence . This first iteration (published 2025) covers...

Ever since they first appeared in a Reddit sub-thread in 2017, ‘deepfakes’ - synthetic media created or manipulated using artificial...

The UK Government's Office for Science has just published summary notes from an expert roundtable held in March 2024, which was attended...

On Saturday 19 July 2025, from 9 am to 5 pm, the TRUE project, in collaboration with IILAT and The Honourable Society of the Inner...

University College Cork Visit Ruben, Gabi, Maryanne, and Yvonne visited University College Cork on 27 January 2025 , where they presented...

On the 6th and 7th March 2025, the TRUE project team welcomed researchers in the field of digital misinformation from institutions across...

We recently hosted our final juries on campus, bringing the total number of juries to 11 (with 12 jurors on each jury). With reserves,...

The TRUE project team is delighted to announce our upcoming workshop titled "Researching Digital Misinformation - Integrating...

The TRUE Project team welcomed a new postdoctoral research fellow in September, Maryanne Brassil. Maryanne is an experimental...

TRUE project PhD student Ruben Lamers-James and supervisor Dr Gabriela Jiga-Boy presented their research at the Annual Conference of...