Todor Kiriakov
Information Integrity Specialist, Identrics
Todor is an Information Integrity Specialist at Identrics. He focuses on the intersection of AI and information integrity, working to counter disinformation and uphold trust in the digital information space.
Areas of expertise
- Information integrity
- Disinformation research
- Propaganda detection
Selected appearances
2024
Fake Steaks, Real Stakes: Using Media Intelligence to Measure the Business Impact of Information Threats
Speaker, AMEC Global Summit, Sofia
With Devora Kotseva
View AMEC session2023
Technologies Against Disinformation 2.0
Research presenter, Sofia
With Devora Kotseva
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Research and publications
2025
WASPer: A Bulgarian-Language Model for Detecting Propaganda in Social Media Content
Co-author
With Yolina Petrova, Devora Kotseva, and Boryana Kostadinova
Read the paper2026
DISRUPT Toolkit: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Defending Democracy Against Influence Operations
Contributor
Published by Alliance4Europe
Read the toolkit
Projects
2024-2026
WASPer and PROPer-BG
Researcher and co-author
Bulgarian-language research on propaganda and AI-generated text detection.
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Posts by Todor Kiriakov
SitRep · 5 Nov 2026
Presidential Election Observatory, Week 6 (Part 2): 26 October-1 November
The second part of Week 6 looks at 1,705 YouTube comments and replies under BNT's presidential debate, in a guest analysis by the Perceptica team: negative assessments prevail for both candidates, but Yotova draws more reasoned criticism and Gurov more mockery. A new cycle of 81 simulated conversations shows how ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overview guide voters ahead of the runoff.
Read postSitRep · 20 Oct 2026
Presidential Election Observatory, Week 4 (Part 1): 12-18 October
Week 4, Part 1 of Identrics' Presidential Election Observatory - Impact Scores fall for the main tickets, Ivelin Mihaylov climbs to third, controversy again centres on Yotova, and a guest analysis by NTCenter on how candidates' websites trigger anxiety (12-18 October), ahead of the 25 October 2026 vote.
Read postSitRep · 6 Oct 2026
Presidential Election Observatory, Week 2: 28 September-4 October
Week 2 of Identrics’ Presidential Election Observatory - Impact Scores cool across the board, controversy concentrates on Yotova, a YouTube astrology Special Focus, and LLM answers by voter profile (28 September-4 October), ahead of the 25 October 2026 vote.
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