Tracking False Information Online

Talk by Isabelle Augenstein

Location: APB 1004
Start: 27. February 2020 at 4:15 pm
End: 27. February 2020 at 5:45 pm
Research group: Computational Logic
Research group: Knowledge-Based Systems
Event series: KBS Seminar
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Digital media enables fast sharing of information and discussions among users. While this comes with many benefits to today’s society, such as broadening information access, the manner in which information is disseminated also has obvious downsides. Since fast access to information is expected by many users and news outlets are often under financial pressure, speedy access often comes at the expense of accuracy, which leads to misinformation. Moreover, digital media can be misused by campaigns to intentionally spread false information, i.e. disinformation, about events, individuals or governments. In this talk, I will present on different ways false information is spread online, including misinformation and disinformation. I will then report findings from our recent and ongoing work on automatic fact checking, stance detection and framing attitudes.