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20202026
most citedFighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society

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cs.AI2026

CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation

Firoj Alam, Fatema Ahmad, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +5

Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics before…

cs.AI2026

MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes

Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Abul Hasnat +4

Memes are a dominant medium for online communication and manipulation because meaning emerges from interactions between embedded text, imagery, and cultural context. Existing meme…

cs.CL2025

Positional Bias in Binary Question Answering: How Uncertainty Shapes Model Preferences

Tiziano Labruna, Simone Gallo, Giovanni Da San Martino

Positional bias in binary question answering occurs when a model systematically favors one choice over another based solely on the ordering of presented options. In this study, we…

cs.CL2025

PCoT: Persuasion-Augmented Chain of Thought for Detecting Fake News and Social Media Disinformation

Arkadiusz Modzelewski, Witold Sosnowski, Tiziano Labruna +2

Disinformation detection is a key aspect of media literacy. Psychological studies have shown that knowledge of persuasive fallacies helps individuals detect disinformation. Inspire…

cs.CL2023

ArAIEval Shared Task: Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection in Arabic Text

Maram Hasanain, Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak +5

We present an overview of the ArAIEval shared task, organized as part of the first ArabicNLP 2023 conference co-located with EMNLP 2023. ArAIEval offers two tasks over Arabic text:…

cs.CL2021

Assisting the Human Fact-Checkers: Detecting All Previously Fact-Checked Claims in a Document

Shaden Shaar, Nikola Georgiev, Firoj Alam +3

Given the recent proliferation of false claims online, there has been a lot of manual fact-checking effort. As this is very time-consuming, human fact-checkers can benefit from too…