A survey on automated fact-checking

Z Guo, M Schlichtkrull, A Vlachos - Transactions of the Association for …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both
information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore …

Social and cognitive aspects of the vulnerability to political misinformation

M Pantazi, S Hale, O Klein - Political Psychology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few years, especially after the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US elections, there
has been a surge in academic interest for misinformation and disinformation. Social …

Fighting false information from propagation process: A survey

L Sun, Y Rao, L Wu, X Zhang, Y Lan, A Nazir - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The recent serious cases of spreading false information have posed a significant threat to
the social stability and even national security, urgently requiring all circles to respond …

A survey on multimodal disinformation detection

F Alam, S Cresci, T Chakraborty, F Silvestri… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news,
propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. While initially this was mostly about textual …

The state of human-centered NLP technology for fact-checking

A Das, H Liu, V Kovatchev, M Lease - Information processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Misinformation threatens modern society by promoting distrust in science, changing
narratives in public health, heightening social polarization, and disrupting democratic …

The clef-2022 checkthat! lab on fighting the covid-19 infodemic and fake news detection

P Nakov, A Barrón-Cedeño, G Da San Martino… - … on Information Retrieval, 2022 - Springer
The fifth edition of the CheckThat! Lab is held as part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of
the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting various factuality …

The clef-2023 checkthat! lab: Checkworthiness, subjectivity, political bias, factuality, and authority

A Barrón-Cedeño, F Alam, T Caselli… - European conference on …, 2023 - Springer
The five editions of the CheckThat! lab so far have focused on the main tasks of the
information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and …

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook

J Allen, DJ Watts, DG Rand - Science, 2024 - science.org
Low uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine in the US has been widely attributed to social media
misinformation. To evaluate this claim, we introduce a framework combining lab experiments …

Averitec: A dataset for real-world claim verification with evidence from the web

M Schlichtkrull, Z Guo… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Existing datasets for automated fact-checking have substantial limitations, such as relying on
artificial claims, lacking annotations for evidence and intermediate reasoning, or including …

Factify 2: A multimodal fake news and satire news dataset

S Suryavardan, S Mishra, P Patwa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The internet gives the world an open platform to express their views and share their stories.
While this is very valuable, it makes fake news one of our society's most pressing problems …