AMIR: Automated MisInformation Rebuttal -- A COVID-19 Vaccination Datasets based Recommendation System

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Autores principales: Sharma, Shakshi, Datta, Anwitaman, Sharma, Rajesh
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Publicado: 2023
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author Sharma, Shakshi
Datta, Anwitaman
Sharma, Rajesh
author_facet Sharma, Shakshi
Datta, Anwitaman
Sharma, Rajesh
contents Misinformation has emerged as a major societal threat in recent years in general; specifically in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has wrecked havoc, for instance, by fuelling vaccine hesitancy. Cost-effective, scalable solutions for combating misinformation are the need of the hour. This work explored how existing information obtained from social media and augmented with more curated fact checked data repositories can be harnessed to facilitate automated rebuttal of misinformation at scale. While the ideas herein can be generalized and reapplied in the broader context of misinformation mitigation using a multitude of information sources and catering to the spectrum of social media platforms, this work serves as a proof of concept, and as such, it is confined in its scope to only rebuttal of tweets, and in the specific context of misinformation regarding COVID-19. It leverages two publicly available datasets, viz. FaCov (fact-checked articles) and misleading (social media Twitter) data on COVID-19 Vaccination.
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spellingShingle AMIR: Automated MisInformation Rebuttal -- A COVID-19 Vaccination Datasets based Recommendation System
Sharma, Shakshi
Datta, Anwitaman
Sharma, Rajesh
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Social and Information Networks
Misinformation has emerged as a major societal threat in recent years in general; specifically in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has wrecked havoc, for instance, by fuelling vaccine hesitancy. Cost-effective, scalable solutions for combating misinformation are the need of the hour. This work explored how existing information obtained from social media and augmented with more curated fact checked data repositories can be harnessed to facilitate automated rebuttal of misinformation at scale. While the ideas herein can be generalized and reapplied in the broader context of misinformation mitigation using a multitude of information sources and catering to the spectrum of social media platforms, this work serves as a proof of concept, and as such, it is confined in its scope to only rebuttal of tweets, and in the specific context of misinformation regarding COVID-19. It leverages two publicly available datasets, viz. FaCov (fact-checked articles) and misleading (social media Twitter) data on COVID-19 Vaccination.
title AMIR: Automated MisInformation Rebuttal -- A COVID-19 Vaccination Datasets based Recommendation System
topic Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19834