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 …

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 …

Misinformation runs rampant on social media and has been tied to adverse health behaviors
such as vaccine hesitancy. Crowdsourcing can be a means to detect and impede the spread …

News content can sometimes be misleading and influence users' decision making
processes (eg, voting decisions). Quantitatively assessing the truthfulness of content …

The proliferation of online misinformation significantly undermines the credibility of web
content. Recently, crowd workers have been successfully employed to assess …

In this paper we present the Vaccination Corpus, a corpus of texts related to the online
vaccination debate that has been annotated with three layers of information about …

Crowdsourcing is the practice of outsourcing a task that would otherwise be performed by
one or a few experts to a crowd of individuals. It is often used to collect large amounts of …

Misinformation has been rapidly spreading online. The common approach to dealing with it
is deploying expert fact-checkers who follow forensic processes to identify the veracity of …