Papers with Digital media
Mapping (Dis-)Information Flow about the MH17 Plane Crash (D19-50)
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| Challenge: | Digital media enables fast sharing of information, but also disinformation . studies on the spread of disinformation on social media focused on small, manually annotated datasets or used proxys for data annotation. |
| Approach: | They propose to use text classifiers to label Twitter content related to the MH17 crash to improve annotation accuracy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed classifier improves over a hashtag-based baseline, but still remains a challenge in labelling pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian content with high precision. |