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 …
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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The Effects of Crowd Worker Biases in Fact-Checking Tasks
Due to the increasing amount of information shared online every day, the need for sound and reliable ways of distinguishing between trustworthy and non-trustworthy information is …
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The Many Dimensions of Truthfulness: Crowdsourcing Misinformation Assessments on a Multidimensional Scale
Recent work has demonstrated the viability of using crowdsourcing as a tool for evaluating the truthfulness of public statements. Under certain conditions such as: (1) having a …
Can The Crowd Judge Truthfulness? A Longitudinal Study on Recent Misinformation About COVID-19
Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach: to assess the truthfulness of a statement, instead of relying on a few experts, a crowd …
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Can The Crowd Identify Misinformation Objectively? The Effects of Judgment Scale and Assessor’s Background
Conference Talk - The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020). July 27, 2020, Xi'an, China (remote). Held remotely …
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