Challenge: scalable strategies to combat online misinformation are short-term and insufficient, authors say . current reactive approaches, like content flagging and banning, do little to change perception of misinformants . human evaluations show that our framework generates expert-like responses .
Approach: They propose a framework that generates persuasive responses from hate-speech counter-responses . human evaluations show that the framework generates expert-like responses .
Outcome: The proposed framework generates expert-like responses and is 14% more engaging, 21% more natural, and 18% more factual than the best available alternatives.

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