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Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov +9
We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured five tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. The first four tasks com…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar +8
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories.…
That is a Known Lie: Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims
Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino, Nikolay Babulkov +1
The recent proliferation of "fake news" has triggered a number of responses, most notably the emergence of several manual fact-checking initiatives. As a result and over time, a la…
Prta: A System to Support the Analysis of Propaganda Techniques in the News
Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Yifan Zhang +3
Recent events, such as the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, Brexit and the COVID-19 "infodemic", have brought into the spotlight the dangers of online disinformation. There has been…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society
Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Fahim Dalvi +14
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first glo…