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New European research project for automated detection of disinformation campaigns in social media

A new ChistERA Project tackles the problem of detecting organized intentional misinformation campaigns in social media. This project is a collaboration with international research partners from Spain, Estonia, and France.

The NLP group at the ZHAW Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) has acquired a new ChistERA project called HAMiSoN. The goal of the project is to tackle the socially crucial problem of detecting organized intentional misinformation campaigns.

Misinformation campaigns are not only limited to single instances of fake news. They are to be seen in a more holistic way: one must take into account the agents that introduce the misinformation, the supporting media that propagates it, and the social network dynamics, which lead to the adoption of this information. Furthermore, misinformation is not only a single instance of stating wrong facts, they are more about spreading narratives with a specific intention or goal. Finally, this problem is not limited to text; with current technologies it has become a multimodal problem including videos, images, and audio alongside text.

In this project, we address these issues by taking all these aspects into account, that is, by taking a holistic approach to the problem detecting misinformation campaigns. The project will span over a period of three years, and includes partners form the National University of Distance Education in Spain, the University of Tartu in Estonia, and Synapse Developpement in France.

We hope that thought this endeavor, the CAI can contribute to a more trustworthy and just consumption of information.