Misinformation is one of the key challenges facing society today. User-centered misinformation interventions as digital countermeasures that exert a direct influence on users represent a promising means to deal with the large amounts of information ...

The kick-off of vaccination campaigns in Europe, starting in late December 2020, has been followed by the online spread of controversies and conspiracies surrounding vaccine validity and efficacy. We study Twitter discussions in three major European ...

The rapid dissemination of information has become commonplace in our contemporary world, characterized by the widespread use of the internet and social media. Whether it pertains to momentous victories in cricket matches or the joyous news of a newborn, ...

The growth of interactive and multimedia content on the Internet has made it an essential news source for people worldwide. Social media is a platform for sharing information and facilitates the spread of fake news. The dissemination of disinformation on ...

Disinformation refers to the deliberate dissemination of fake or misleading information, which significantly threatens the modern social stability by undermining trust, intensifying polarization and manipulating public opinion. With the advances of ...

The pervasive abuse of misinformation to influence public opinion on social media has become increasingly evident in various domains, encompassing politics, as seen in presidential elections, and healthcare, most notably during the recent COVID-19 ...

Misinformation poses a recurrent challenge for video-sharing platforms (VSPs) like TikTok. Obtaining user perspectives on digital interventions addressing the need for transparency (e.g., through indicators) is essential. This article offers a thorough ...

What types of governance arrangements make some self-governed online groups more vulnerable to disinformation campaigns? We present a qualitative comparative analysis of the Croatian and Serbian Wikipedia editions to answer this question. We do so ...

Self-governing hybrid societies are multi-agent systems where humans and machines interact by adapting to each other’s behaviour. Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have brought an increasing hybridisation of our societies, where one particular ...

In the context of social media, the integrity of images is often dubious. To tackle this challenge, we introduce Exif2Vec, a novel framework specifically designed to discover modifications in social media images. The proposed framework leverages an image’...

The first five editions of the CheckThat! lab focused on the main tasks of the information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and verification. Since the 2023 edition, it has been focusing on new problems that ...

Logical fallacy detection has emerged as a novel and challenging task for language models, more complex than traditional fake news or hate speech detection. This research-in-progress examines an Entity-Aware Approach for logical fallacy detection adapted ...

The spread of disinformation is becoming a more acute challenge in modern society. The rise of AI technologies is providing it with an additional boost, making disinformation creation and propagation available to almost anyone. This change in the ...

Diversity of expertise is inherent to cultural evolution. When it is transparent, diversity of human knowledge is useful; when social conformity overcomes that transparency, “expertise” can lead to divisiveness. This is especially true today, where ...

Misinformation poses a threat to democracy and to people’s health. Reliability criteria for news websites can help people identify misinformation. But despite their importance, there has been no empirically substantiated list of criteria for ...

Recent internationally relevant diplomatic and economic developments have placed a bright spotlight on the relevance of genuine and false claims. In a post-truth era, or as more commonly known, the era of fake news, an increasing interest has manifested ...

Social media and digital platforms have become increasingly essential for creating successful and sustainable businesses and driving the growth of the digital economy. However, distorted content on digital platforms affects entities and creates confusion ...

Search engines are vulnerable to attacks against indexing and searching via text encoding manipulation. By imperceptibly perturbing text using uncommon encoded representations, adversaries can control results across search engines for specific search ...

Lectures and seminars which are commonly used in schools as teaching methods have faced criticism for lacking personal touch. The rapid growth and influence of media platforms have revolutionized how information is shared and consumed, with a ...

Data are wielded to shape public opinion, particularly in electoral contexts where the role and veracity of information is questioned. This post-truth era is characterized by world events in which facts too often are obfuscated and evidential standards ...