Fact-Checking

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Crowdsourced Fact-Checking for Misinformation: A Journey Through Nine Years of Research (2018–2026)

Workshop Talk - Workshop "AI and Disinformation", held as part of the 6th National CINI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2026). June 18, 2026, Rome, Italy.

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Michael Soprano
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The Magnitude of Truth: On Using Magnitude Estimation for Truthfulness Assessment

Conference Talk - The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Padua, Italy.

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Michael Soprano

The Magnitude of Truth: On Using Magnitude Estimation for Truthfulness Assessment

Assessing the truthfulness of information is a critical task in fact-checking and is typically performed using binary or coarse ordinal scales (2–6 levels), though fine-grained …

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Michael Soprano

Efficiency and Effectiveness of LLM-Based Summarization of Evidence in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking

Evaluating the truthfulness of online content is critical for combating misinformation. This study examines the efficiency and effectiveness of crowdsourced truthfulness …

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Enhancing Fact-Checking: From Crowdsourced Validation to Integration with Large Language Models

This extended abstract presents results from two recent studies aimed at enhancing the practical application and effectiveness of fact-checking systems. The first study …

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Crowdsourced Fact-checking: Does It Actually Work?

There is an important ongoing effort aimed to tackle misinformation and to perform reliable fact-checking by employing human assessors at scale, with a crowdsourcing-based …

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Cognitive Biases in Fact-Checking and Their Countermeasures: A Review

The increase of the amount of misinformation spread every day online is a huge threat to the society. Organizations and researchers are working to contrast this misinformation …

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Michael Soprano

Fact-Checking at Scale with Crowdsourcing: Experiments and Lessons Learned

In this paper, we present our journey in exploring the use of crowdsourcing for fact-checking. We discuss our early experiments aimed towards the identification of the best …

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