5 papers
A Browser-based Open Source Assistant for Multimodal Content Verification
Rosanna Milner, Michael Foster, Twin Karmakharm +5
Disinformation and false content produced by generative AI pose a significant challenge for journalists and fact-checkers who must rapidly verify digital media information. While t…
Truth with a Twist: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in Professional vs. Community-Authored Fact-Checks
Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Kalina Bontcheva
This study presents the first large-scale comparison of persuasion techniques present in crowd- versus professionally-written debunks. Using extensive datasets from Community Notes…
Timeliness, Consensus, and Composition of the Crowd: Community Notes on X
Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Adel Tayebi, Ulrikke Dybdal Sørensen +2
This study presents the first large-scale quantitative analysis of the efficiency of X's Community Notes, a crowdsourced moderation system for identifying and contextualising poten…
A Cross-Domain Study of the Use of Persuasion Techniques in Online Disinformation
João A. Leite, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Carolina Scarton +1
Disinformation, irrespective of domain or language, aims to deceive or manipulate public opinion, typically through employing advanced persuasion techniques. Qualitative and quanti…
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…