Continuously Reliable Detection of New-Normal Misinformation: Semantic Masking and Contrastive Smoothing in High-Density Latent Regions

Abhijit Suprem, Joao Eduardo Ferreira, Calton Pu

Toxic misinformation campaigns have caused significant societal harm, e.g., affecting elections and COVID-19 information awareness. Unfortunately, despite successes of (gold standa…