The Fact-Checking Observatory – Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, tracking how misinformation and fact-checks spread on social media is key for understanding where fact-checking efforts need to be focused and what demographics are most likely to spread misinformation. In this article, we introduce the Fact-checking Observatory, a website that automatically generates human-readable weekly reports about the spread of misinformation and fact-checks on Twitter. The proposed approach differs from other tools that give one-off manual reports or visualisation by providing organisations and- doi
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- The Fact-Checking Observatory – Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media
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- Grégoire Burel, Harith Alani
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- https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609042
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- In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, tracking how misinformation and fact-checks spread on social media is key for understanding where fact-checking efforts need to be focused and what demographics are most likely to spread misinformation. In this article, we introduce the Fact-checking Observatory, a website that automatically generates human-readable weekly reports about the spread of misinformation and fact-checks on Twitter. The proposed approach differs from other tools that give one-off manual reports or visualisation by providing organisations and
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- 2023-09-04
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- HT '23: 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Rome, Italy, September 4-8, 2023
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- Grégoire Burel, Harith Alani (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
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