Developing misinformation immunity: How to reason-check fallacious news in a human–computer interaction environment

E Musi, E Carmi, C Reed, S Yates… - Social Media+ …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
To counter the fake news phenomenon, the scholarly community has attempted to debunk
and prebunk disinformation. However, misinformation still constitutes a major challenge due …

Argument-based detection and classification of fallacies in political debates

P Goffredo, M Espinoza, S Villata… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - hal.science
Fallacies are arguments that employ faulty reasoning. Given their persuasive and seemingly
valid nature, fallacious arguments are often used in political debates. Employing these …

Disinformation and local Media in the Iberian Context: how to protect news credibility

Á Fernández-Barrero, R Rivas-de-Roca… - Journalism and …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Regional and local media outlets have much more credibility than news organizations
placed at a national level, according to polls. In a context fueled by the spread of …

Grounding fallacies misrepresenting scientific publications in evidence

M Glockner, Y Hou, P Nakov, I Gurevych - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.12812, 2024 - arxiv.org
Health-related misinformation claims often falsely cite a credible biomedical publication as
evidence, which superficially appears to support the false claim. The publication does not …

Large Language Models are Few-Shot Training Example Generators: A Case Study in Fallacy Recognition

T Alhindi, S Muresan, P Nakov - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09552, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recognizing fallacies is crucial for ensuring the quality and validity of arguments across
various domains. However, computational fallacy recognition faces challenges due to the …

MAFALDA: A Benchmark and Comprehensive Study of Fallacy Detection and Classification

C Helwe, T Calamai, PH Paris, C Clavel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Fallacies can be used to spread disinformation, fake news, and propaganda, underlining the
importance of their detection. Automated detection and classification of fallacies, however …

An Investigation of the Use of Theories in Misinformation Studies

L Ogbadu‐Oladapo, HH Chung, J Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines social science and humanity theories that have been applied to
studies dealing with misinformation. We identified 273 articles published from 2012 to 2023 …

Beyond digital literacy: The era of AI-powered assistants and evolving user skills

L Naamati-Schneider, D Alt - Education and Information Technologies, 2024 - Springer
The integration of ChatGPT into educational systems underscores the critical importance of
reevaluating the relevance of digital literacy skills. This study empirically tested, for the first …

Enhancing AI competence in health management: students' experiences with ChatGPT as a learning Tool

L Naamati-Schneider - BMC Medical Education, 2024 - Springer
Background The healthcare industry has had to adapt to significant shifts caused by
technological advancements, demographic changes, economic pressures, and political …

Are LLMs Good Zero-Shot Fallacy Classifiers?

F Pan, X Wu, Z Li, AT Luu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15050, 2024 - arxiv.org
Fallacies are defective arguments with faulty reasoning. Detecting and classifying them is a
crucial NLP task to prevent misinformation, manipulative claims, and biased decisions …