Dr. Preslav Nakov and Dr. Giovanni Da San Martino presented in CIKM. They provided an overview of the newest research in the area of fact-checking , disinformation, “fake news”, propaganda, and detecting fake news. This effort comes as a result of the rise of online platforms that facilitate the rapid sharing of information and news. During the presentation, the researchers also highlighted the important elements involved in fact-checking such as “check-worthiness estimation, spotting previously fact-checked claims, stance detection, source reliability estimation, detection of persuasion techniques, and detecting malicious users in social media.”
Read more: https://www.cikm2021.org/programme/tutorials/fake-news-disinformation-propaganda-and-media-bias
To see the tutorial: https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/cikm21-tutorial/
