Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots
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| author | Zaki, Tarannum Nelson, Michael L. Weigle, Michele C. |
| author_facet | Zaki, Tarannum Nelson, Michael L. Weigle, Michele C. |
| contents | Screenshots of social media posts are a common approach for information sharing. Unfortunately, before sharing a screenshot, users rarely verify whether the attribution of the post is fake or real. There are numerous legitimate reasons to share screenshots. However, sharing screenshots of social media posts is also a vector for mis-/disinformation spread on social media. We are exploring methods to verify the attribution of a social media post shown in a screenshot, using resources found on the live web and in web archives. We focus on the use of web archives, since the attribution of non-deleted posts can be relatively easily verified using the live web. We show how information from a Twitter screenshot (Twitter handle, timestamp, and tweet text) can be extracted and used for locating potential archived tweets in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. We evaluate our method on a dataset of 1,571 single tweet screenshots. |
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| spellingShingle | Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots Zaki, Tarannum Nelson, Michael L. Weigle, Michele C. Digital Libraries Screenshots of social media posts are a common approach for information sharing. Unfortunately, before sharing a screenshot, users rarely verify whether the attribution of the post is fake or real. There are numerous legitimate reasons to share screenshots. However, sharing screenshots of social media posts is also a vector for mis-/disinformation spread on social media. We are exploring methods to verify the attribution of a social media post shown in a screenshot, using resources found on the live web and in web archives. We focus on the use of web archives, since the attribution of non-deleted posts can be relatively easily verified using the live web. We show how information from a Twitter screenshot (Twitter handle, timestamp, and tweet text) can be extracted and used for locating potential archived tweets in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. We evaluate our method on a dataset of 1,571 single tweet screenshots. |
| title | Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots |
| topic | Digital Libraries |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22939 |