Papers by Abul Hasnat
CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation (2026.acl-demo)
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Firoj Alam, Fatema Ahmad, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Elisa Sartori, Giovanni Da San Martino, Abul Hasnat, Raian Ali
| Challenge: | a recent study found that social media misinformation is reactive and claim-specific, and can degrade under temporal and cross-lingual/domain shift. |
| Approach: | They present a mobile media-literacy app that builds digital literacy skills through short, interactive challenges with instant feedback. |
| Outcome: | The app is the first multilingual and modular platform to improve digital literacy skills. |
MemeIntel: Explainable Detection of Propagandistic and Hateful Memes (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for label detection and explanation generation have been limited in understanding complex issues . identifying propaganda and hate in memes is essential for combating misinformation and minimizing harm . |
| Approach: | They propose an explanation-enhanced dataset for propaganda memes in Arabic and hateful memes on English to solve these tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the current state-of-the-art in label detection and explanation generation. |
ArMeme: Propagandistic Content in Arabic Memes (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a lack of media literacy is a major factor contributing to the spread of misleading information on social media. |
| Approach: | They analyze a dataset of 6K Arabic memes with manual annotations . they propose to develop computational tools for their detection . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is a first resource for Arabic multimodal research. |