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most citedToxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis

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cs.CL2026

Build it, Break it, Repeat: Benchmarking and improving LLM-manipulated disinformation detection in social media posts

Kevin Thomas, Milosz Kasprzyk, Reuel C Igbokwe Onuigbo +5

Detecting machine-generated disinformation on social media is increasingly difficult as large language models (LLMs) make it easier to generate and rewrite misleading content at sc…

cs.CL2026

LLM-Based Adversarial Persuasion Attacks on Fact-Checking Systems

João A. Leite, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Kalina Bontcheva +1

Automated fact-checking (AFC) systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, enabling false claims to evade detection. Existing adversarial frameworks typically rely on injecting…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Tailored untruths: How personalisation challenges LLM safeguards

João A. Leite, João Luz, Silvia Gargova +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly persuasive disinformation, yet little is known about how effectively they personalise it across languages and demographic groups. W…

cs.CL2024★ 8 cited

A Survey on Automatic Credibility Assessment Using Textual Credibility Signals in the Era of Large Language Models

Ivan Srba, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, João A. Leite +10

In the age of social media and generative AI, the ability to automatically assess the credibility of online content has become increasingly critical, complementing traditional appr…

cs.CL2024★ 8 cited

EUvsDisinfo: A Dataset for Multilingual Detection of Pro-Kremlin Disinformation in News Articles

João A. Leite, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Kalina Bontcheva +1

This work introduces EUvsDisinfo, a multilingual dataset of disinformation articles originating from pro-Kremlin outlets, along with trustworthy articles from credible / less biase…

cs.CL2023★ 12 cited

Weakly Supervised Veracity Classification with LLM-Predicted Credibility Signals

João A. Leite, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Kalina Bontcheva +1

Credibility signals represent a wide range of heuristics typically used by journalists and fact-checkers to assess the veracity of online content. Automating the extraction of cred…

cs.CL2023★ 23 cited

Comparison between parameter-efficient techniques and full fine-tuning: A case study on multilingual news article classification

Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Ben Wu, Joao A. Leite +5

Adapters and Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) are parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques designed to make the training of language models more efficient. Previous results demonstrate…

cs.CL2023

Noisy Self-Training with Data Augmentations for Offensive and Hate Speech Detection Tasks

João A. Leite, Carolina Scarton, Diego F. Silva

Online social media is rife with offensive and hateful comments, prompting the need for their automatic detection given the sheer amount of posts created every second. Creating hig…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Mono and multilingual approaches for news genre, topic and persuasion technique classification

Ben Wu, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Freddy Heppell +4

This paper describes our approach for SemEval-2023 Task 3: Detecting the category, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in online news in a multi-lingual setup. For Subtask 1…

cs.CL2020★ 43 cited

Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis

João A. Leite, Diego F. Silva, Kalina Bontcheva +1

Hate speech and toxic comments are a common concern of social media platform users. Although these comments are, fortunately, the minority in these platforms, they are still capabl…