Sami Nenno
Sami Nenno is a researcher in the Societal Values, Transformation and AI research focus 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 (8)
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), 1-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2025.1.6.NENN Publication details
Nenno, S. (2025). Separate worlds of misinformation. An explorative study of checked claims in German public broadcast news and talk shows. Information, Communication & Society, 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2561030 Publication details
Nenno, S. (2025). Was macht eine Behauptung prüfenswert? Eine Untersuchung der Selektionskriterien beim Faktenchecken anhand der Nachrichtenwerttheorie. Publizistik, 70, 459-486. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-025-00895-6 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 (1)
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 (10)
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 (11)
Presentation @ ECREA 2024
Workshop Paper @ AIMLAI at ECML/PKDD 2024
Paper Presentation @ MISDOOM 2024
Vortrag @ MA-Ringvorlesung “Politische Kommunikation”
Vortrag @ BARC Data Festival: Implementation of Public Interest AI
Speaker @ DATA festival #Munich
Vortrag @ Modus – Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung: Desinformation und KI. Wird jetzt alles noch schlimmer?
Workshop “AI Systems for the Public Interest“
Propositional Claim Detection
Eine Bestandsaufnahme des CO2-Fußabdrucks von AI: Was wissen wir und wie können wir ihn verringern?
AI for Sustainability & Sustainable AI
Panels (1)
Panel @ MISDOOM 2024
Moderation of workshops and panels (2)
Seminarreihe „Desinformation, Fake News und Co. – Meinungs- und Demokratiebildung im Schulkontext“
Online-Veranstaltung des Projekts „Mit Menschenrechten Brücken bauen – Politische Bildung in Transformationsprozessen“
Organisation of events (8)
28.06.2025. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany (National) Further information
Laura State, Sadiem Youssef, Anna Aust, Jella Ohnesorge, Philipp Mahlow, Ann-Kathrin Watolla, Katherina Holscher Blackman, Maximilian Lukat, Paul Vilchez, Daniel Pothmann, Sarah Spitz, Sami Nenno, Frederik Efferenn, Georg von Richthofen, Lena Marie Henkes, Bronwen Deacon, Jörg Pohle, Hendrik Send
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 (1)
KI-Roundtable „KI und Desinformation“
Position
Associated Researcher: Societal Values, Transformation and AI
Contact
Societal Values, Transformation and Artificial Intelligence
Topics: Desinformation, Fact checking