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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Fact-checking"”.
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ONLINE MISINFORMATION AND FACT-CHECKING
… have begun to counter false news by integrating fact-checking services. These fact-checkers verify posts’ content and inform users about the posts’ veracity before engaging with them. While the efficacy of fact-checking on users has been studied in prior literature, little attention has been paid …
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On End-to-end Automatic Fact-checking Systems
… of social media has aided the spread of nonfactual information across the internet, and organizations are combating disinformation by performing manual fact-checking. Due to the massive amount of online information, the automation of this process has recently gained great interest. Previous …
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Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds
Professional fact-checking, a prominent approach to combating misinformation, does not scale easily. Furthermore, some distrust fact-checkers because of alleged liberal bias. We explore a solution to these problems: using politically balanced groups of laypeople to identify misinformation at scale. …
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Deciding What's True: Fact-Checking Journalism and the New Ecology of News
… dissertation studies the new class of political fact-checkers, journalists who specialize in assessing the truth of public claims -- and who, it is argued, constitute a professional reform movement reaching to the center of the elite US news media. In less than a decade this emergent genre of …
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Impactful fact-checking for science : communication strategies applying artificial intelligence as the source of information
… reduce the partisan bias in the evaluation of fact-checking messages in the context of science communication. To that end, two moderated mediation models were constructed and tested. In Study 1, experimental results suggest that AI sources will conditionally assist scientists to develop more …
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The Illinois Retrieval Benchmark : A scalable framework for characterizing retrieval-augmented generation via automated fact-checking
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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How Are Chinese Journalists Countering International Fake News? A Qualitative Study of Practice and Transparency in The Paper’s Fact-Checking Division, Mingcha
… and public opinion environment. In recent years, fact-checking has rapidly developed globally as an important tool to combat fake news, as developed globally in recent years. However, current academic research on fact-checking has mostly focused on Western countries, lacking a systematic analysis …
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Combating fake news with adversarial domain adaptation and neural models
Factually incorrect claims on the web and in social media can cause considerable damage to individuals and societies by misleading them. As we enter an era where it is easier than ever to disseminate "fake news" and other dubious claims, automatic fact checking becomes an essential tool to help …
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Essays on Understanding and Combating Misinformation at Scale
… misinformation is the use of professional fact-checkers. This approach, however, is not scalable: Professional fact-checkers cannot possibly keep up with the volume of misinformation produced every day. Furthermore, many people see fact-checkers as having a liberal bias and thus distrust …
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Through Smoke and Mirrors of the Post-Truth Era: Knowledge-Driven Generation as Algorithmic Resistance to Misinformation
… online far exceeds the capacity of manual fact-checking, making its automation not merely desirable but necessary. Natural Language Generation (NLG) represents a viable solution, enabling the automatic production of verdicts: knowledge-grounded textual responses that explain the veracity of …
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Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation
… commitment to journalistic and institutional fact-checking. The assumption of these efforts is that successfully correcting misinformation will prevent it from affecting citizens' attitudes. However, through a series of experiments, I find that exposure to a piece of negative political …
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Contrastive Text Generation
… an old piece of text and a claim for the task of factual updates. As there is no supervision available to solve this task, our planner utilizes a fact-checking dataset to identify disagreeing phrases in an old text with respect to the claim. Subsequently, we use agreeing pairs from the …
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Evidence-based verification and correction of textual claims
This thesis considers the task of fact-checking: predicting the veracity of claims made in written or spoken language using evidence. However, in previous task formulations, modelling assumptions ignore the requirement for systems to retrieve the necessary evidence. To better model how human …
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Detecting and Mitigating Rumors in Social Media
… a rumor mitigation technique that recommends fact-checking URLs to rumor debunkers, i.e., social network users who are very passionate about disseminating true news. Here, we incorporate the influence of other users on rumor debunkers in addition to their previous URL sharing history to …
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Neuro-symbolic fact verification
Fact-checking, the process of assessing the veracity of claims, is a time-consuming task that can potentially take hours or days for a single claim, incentivising the development of computational methods to automate (parts of) the fact-checking process. This challenge has been instantiated in the …
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AI-Driven Fake News Detection: Trends, Techniques, and Experimental Analysis
… of a 2016 U.S. election dataset. By employing fact-checking and advanced data mining, we investigate linguistic characteristics through exploratory data analysis and apply multiple machine learning algorithms for classification. Experimental results yield valuable insights into the defining …
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Group Identity, Ideology, and Mass Media: Content Analysis of the 2018 Media Spectacles Family Separation and Migrant Caravan
… trauma and condemning those who caused it, 2) fact checking the enemy and delivering reality to the audience, 3) framing in political terms, 4) assigning a guilty party for the Latino Immigrant Issue at hand, and 5) asking who is responsible to then step up and address the Latino Immigrant …
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The Impact of Positive/Negative Fake News on Country Brand Equity
… news stories about China were selected from the fact-checking database of Snopes.com to measure framing effects. The findings reveal that fake news frames exert an indirect effect on country brand equity through sequential mediation by news credibility and cognitive image. Negative frames …
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COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter: the role of deceptive support
… Tweets containing claims that are worthy of fact-checking and then, to assess whether the claims made in a given Tweet are supported by the news article it cites. In the event that a Tweet is found to be trustworthy, we extract its claim via a sequence labeling approach. In doing so, we seek …
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Multi-Stage LLM Reasoning for Automated Detection and Classification of High-Impact Misinformation
… focus on a narrow definition of misinformation: factual claims that can be clearly judged as true or false. However, recent research suggests the problem lies elsewhere: overt falsehoods (“vaccines contain microchips”) can carry little harm, while technically accurate but decontextualized …
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