Online social networks (OSNs) are rapidly growing and have become a huge source of all
kinds of global and local news for millions of users. However, OSNs are a double-edged …

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 plague. In …

Misinformation threatens modern society by promoting distrust in science, changing
narratives in public health, heightening social polarization, and disrupting democratic …

Fact-checking is one of the effective solutions in fighting online misinformation. However,
traditional fact-checking is a process requiring scarce expert human resources, and thus …

We present an approach for selecting objectively informative and subjectively helpful
annotations to social media posts. We draw on data from on an online environment where …

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 balanced …

Big data have the characteristics of enormous volume, high velocity, diversity, value-sparsity,
and uncertainty, which lead the knowledge learning from them full of challenges. With the …

There is an important ongoing effort aimed to tackle misinformation and to perform reliable
fact-checking by employing human assessors at scale, with a crowdsourcing-based …

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 …

Truthfulness judgments are a fundamental step in the process of fighting misinformation, as
they are crucial to train and evaluate classifiers that automatically distinguish true and false …