Stance detection is a critical component of rumour and fake news identification. It involves the extraction of the stance a particular author takes related to a given claim, both expressed in text. This paper investigates stance classification for Russian. It introduces a new dataset, RuStance, of Russian tweets and news comments from multiple sour...
Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Humanas e da Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão da Informação, Florianópolis, 2018. / Apresenta o desenvolvimento da noção de confiabilidade informacional dentro do ambiente virtual por meio de conceituações e critérios. Para tanto, inicial...
A form of political disinformation that had a prominent place in journalism during the US presidential election in 2016 was called fake news. There were, however, uncertainties what could be called fake news. The purpose of this study was to explore qualitatively how mainstream media described the word fake news. The data collection approach was in...
De plus en plus souvent l'information journalistique arrive directement sur les « murs » de nos réseaux sociaux, en priorité Facebook ou Twitter, mais aussi LinkedIn ou Snapchat et bien sûr via des vidéos mises en ligne sur YouTube ou DailyMotion. La médiation de ces plateformes pour accéder à l'information d’actualité n’est pas neutre. L’objet de ...
Analyse des dispositifs existants et des propositions visant à restreindre la diffusion de fausses nouvelles (fake news) sur les services de communication au public en ligne (réseaux sociaux,...) en période électorale
Le développement des vulgarisateurs sur YouTube il y a quelques années nous permet de considérer ce média comme un réservoir de connaissance. Mais comment puis-je croire ce qui j’y regarde ? A l’heure des fake news ou de la post vérité, comment distinguer une chaîne digne de confiance ?
The EU’s approach to fake news, as epitomised by the European External Action (EEAS) Service East Stratcom Disinformation Review, violates the rights to freedom of expression and due process of those accused of distributing disinformation. The EU Disinformation Review is a publication of the European External Action Service (the European Union’s di...
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In recent years, situation awareness has been recognised as a critical part of effective decision making, in particular for crisis management. One way to extract value and allow for better situation awareness is to develop a system capable of analysing a dataset of multiple posts, and clustering consistent posts into different views or stories (or,...
The rapid spread of online misinformation poses an increasing risk to societies worldwide. To help counter this, we developed a ‘fake news game’ in which participants are actively tasked with creating a news article about a strongly politicized issue (the European refugee crisis) using misleading tactics, from the perspective of different types of ...
