Sami Nenno
Sami Nenno is a researcher at the AI & Society Lab at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and a postdoc at the Synergy of Systems Centre (Synosys) at Dresden University of Technology. His dissertation looked into the automation of journalistic processes. In this context he has built a natural language tool to help fact checkers spot disinformation. His general research focuses on disinformation and political communication in (social) media, and he’s also involved in the further development of automatic methods for analysing large text data sets. Within that framework, he has also investigated the sustainability and efficiency of machine learning models.
Sami holds a PhD in Communication Science from the University of Bremen. He also has a Master’s in Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin and a Master’s in Data Science from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences.
AI · Society & culturePublic Interest AI
The “Public Interest AI” research group is developing an operationalisable analysis procedure that will allow Public Interest to be defined in an AI-specific way...
Journal articles and conference proceedings
Nenno, S., & Puschmann, C. (2025). All The (Fake) News That’s Fit to Share? News Values in Perceived Misinformation across Twenty-Four Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241311893 Publication details
Nenno, S. (2025). Fact-checks as Data Source? Content Analysis of Fact-checking Articles in Germany between 2019 and 2023. Computational Communication Research, 7(1), 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2025.1.6.NENN Publication details
Nenno, S. (2024). Is checkworthiness generalizable? Evaluating task and domain generalization of datasets for claim detection. Neural Computing & Applications, 36, 15165–15176. DOI: 10.1007/s00521-024-09896-4 Publication details
Nenno, S. (2024). Potentials and Limitations of Active Learning for the Reduction of Energy Consumption during Model Training. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 4(1). DOI: 10.34669/WI.WJDS/4.1.3 Publication details
Nenno, S. (2024). Propositional claim detection: A task and dataset for the classification of claims to truth. Journal of Computational Social Science. DOI: 10.1007/s42001-024-00289-0 Publication details
Nenno, S. (2024). Bootstrapping public entities. Domain-specific NER for public speakers. Communication Methods and Measures. DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2024.2388098 Publication details
Working paper
Züger, T., Faßbender, J., Kuper, F., Nenno, S., Katzy-Reinshagen, A., & Kühnlein, I. (2022). Civic Coding: Grundlagen und empirische Einblicke zur Unterstützung gemeinwohlorientierter KI. Civic Coding Initiative. Publication details
Other publications
Nenno, S. (2024). Schädliche Informationen im Netz: Wann der Hype um Desinformation schadet. Tagesspiegel. Publication details
Nenno, S., Theodorakopulous, D., Lebedjew, I., Metz A. (2024). Wie nachhaltig sind KI-Systeme?, Podcast: Mission Energiewende. Publication details
Nenno, S. (2024). What’s the Content of Fact-checks and Misinformation in Germany? Elephant in the Lab. Publication details
Nenno, S. (2023). Propositional Claim Detection, (NLP Datensatz). Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2538. Publication details
Nenno, S. (2023). Inside Hugging Face. Digital society blog. Publication details
Nenno, S. (2023). Wie können KI-Modelle energiesparender werden? Ein Überblick über aktuelle Trends. te.ma. Publication details
Nenno, S., & Richter, C. (2022). Sustainable AI – How environmentally friendly is AI really? Digital society blog. Publication details
Nenno, S. (2021). Siri’s evil sister. When the Dutch public service steals your data. Digital society blog. Publication details
Hewett, F., & Nenno, S. (2021). How to identify bias in Natural Language Processing. Digital society blog. Publication details
Nenno, S. (2021). How to find the right survey tool:problems and proposals. Elephant in the Lab. Publication details
Lectures and presentations
All the (fake) news that’s fit to share? News values in perceived misinformation across 24 countriesECREA 2024 Communication & social (dis)order: 10th European Communication Conference (Session: From sharing to discussing: Online media experiences). European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia: 25.09.2024 Further information
Sami Nenno, Cornelius Puschmann
Mechanistic Interpretability of Socio-Political Frames in Language Models: an ExplorationAdvances in Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AIMLAI). INRIA. Radisson Blu Vilnius Hotel, Vilnius, Lithuania: 09.09.2024 Further information
Hadi Asghari, Sami Nenno
Random Evidence. Study on the Types of Evidence used to debunk Misinformation and the Implications for Automated Fact-checkingMisdoom 2024: 6th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media. University of Münster. Münster Palace, Münster, Germany: 03.09.2024 Further information
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Fact-checks as Data Source? Content Analysis of Fact-checking Articles in Germany between 2019 and 2023Ringvorlesung: "Politische Kommunikation". Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Jena, Germany: 29.05.2024 Further information
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Implementation of Public Interest AIBARC Data Festival. BARC GmbH. Muffatwerk Munich, Munich, Germany: 19.03.2024 Further information
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Implementation of Public Interest AIDATA festival #Munich: Getting real with AI. BARC. Muffatwerk Munich, Munich, Germany: 19.03.2024 Further information
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Desinformation und KI. Wird jetzt alles noch schlimmer?Lecture: Desinformation und KI. Wird jetzt alles noch schlimmer?. Modus – Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung gGmbH. Modus – Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung, Berlin, Germany: 12.12.2023
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KI 2023 – 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Session: AI Systems for the Public Interest). Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 26.09.2023 Further informationJudith Faßbender, Freya Hewett, Sami Nenno
Propositional Claim DetectionInternational Conference for Computational Social Science IC2S2'23 Copenhagen. International Society for Computational Social Science (ISCSS). Mærsk Tower of the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark: 20.07.2023 Further information
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Eine Bestandsaufnahme des CO2-Fußabdrucks von AI: Was wissen wir und wie können wir ihn verringern?KI Camp 2023. Gesellschaft für Informatik. Factory Berlin Görlitzer Park, Berlin, Germany: 26.04.2023 Further information
Sami Nenno, Hadi Asghari
AI for Sustainability & Sustainable AICIFE Master programmes in Global Economic Governance & Public Affairs (GEGPA) and EU Trade & Climate Diplomacy (EUDIPLO). Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE). Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE), Berlin, Germany: 17.03.2023
Asghari, H., Nenno, S.
Panels
Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me: Aggregated Behavior and Clustering of Harmful Actors in Climate Change Online DiscoursesMISDOOM 2024: 6th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media. University of Münster. Münster Palace, Münster, Germany: 03.09.2024 Further information
Philip Kessling, Felix Victor Münch, Mattes Ruckdeschel, Gregor Wiedemann, Sami Nenno, Cornelius Puschmann
Moderation of workshops and panels
Impuls: Chancen und Gefahren von KI in Bezug auf DesinformationDesinformation, Fake News und Co. – Meinungs- und Demokratiebildung im Schulkontext. Vodafone Stiftung, Hertie School Executive Education. Hertie School, Berlin, Germany: 17.05.2024 Further information
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Was sind Desinformationsnarrative in Deutschland und wie geht man dagegen vor?Mit Menschenrechten Brücken bauen – Politische Bildung in Transformationsprozessen. Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte. Online, Berlin, Germany: 29.02.2024 Further information
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Organisation of events
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft22.06.2024. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (National) Further information
Philipp Mahlow, Birte Lübbert, Maurice Stenzel, Alina Kontareva, Daniel Pothmann, Nele Buß, Irina Kühnlein, Sarah Spitz, Freia Kuper, Sami Nenno, Freya Hewett, Frederik Efferenn, Georg von Richthofen, Sonja Köhne, Bronwen Deacon, Matthias C. Kettemann, Thomas Christian Bächle, Nataliia Sokolovska, Martin Wrobel, Jörg Pohle, Hendrik Send, Theresa Züger, Jeanette Hofmann
Interaktiver Workshop: KI menschlich erklärt27.09.2023. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (National) Further information
Daniel Pothmann, Sarah Spitz, Sami Nenno, Frederik Efferenn, Theresa Züger
Hackathon. Entwicklung von KI-ErklärungsmodellenFrom 03.02.2023 to 03.02.2023. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: neuland & gestalten (National) Further information
Daniel Pothmann, Sarah Spitz, Hadi Asghari, Sami Nenno, Freya Hewett, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger
Sustainable AI IIwith attending Vip: Lynn Kaack. 14.06.2022. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (National)
Sami Nenno, Theresa Züger
AI and the Public Interest13.06.2022. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (International) Further information
Hadi Asghari, Sami Nenno, Freya Hewett, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger
AI & Society Lab (AI & Society Lab)Study week of the ZHAW: "Der Mensch im digitalen Zeitalter". 05.05.2022. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: ZHAW (International)
Sami Nenno, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger
Sustainable AIwith attending Vip: Friederike Rohde. 29.04.2022. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (National)
Sami Nenno, Theresa Züger
Participation as expert
KI-Roundtable: KI und Desinformation Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr. Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr, Berlin, Germany: 24.05.2024Theresa Züger, Sami Nenno
Media appearances
Elon Musk wants the far right AfD to win the German election - here’s how he became their champion (24.02.2025). The Independent
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How Elon Musk used X to amplify Germany’s far right ahead of election (20.02.2025). Washington Post
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Tausende demonstrieren friedlich gegen AfD – X sieht nur „Terroristen“ (05.02.2025). Frankfurter Rundschau
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Vor den US-Präsidentschaftswahlen: Wie sollten Medien mit Desinformation und Fake News umgehen? (01.11.2024). Deutschlandfunk – Nach Redaktionsschluss
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Wie nachhaltig sind KI-Systeme? - Mission Energiewende | KI und Nachhaltigkeit (14.05.2024). detektor.fm
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KI zum Klonen von Stimmen: Künstliche Stimmen, ganz natürlich (06.04.2024). taz
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Schädliche Informationen im Netz: Wann der Hype um Desinformation schadet (21.03.2024). Tagesspiegel
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