Students turn to the Internet for information but often struggle to evaluate the trustworthiness
of what they find. Teachers should help students develop effective evaluation strategies in …

How can social media platforms fight the spread of misinformation? One possibility is to use
newsfeed algorithms to downrank content from sources that users rate as untrustworthy. But …

The aim of this study is to find key areas of research that can be useful to fight against
disinformation on Wikipedia. To address this problem we perform a literature review trying to …

Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its biographical content. This bias not
only shapes social perceptions of knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform …

Introduction As many web platforms adopt collaborative content editing models, the gender
gap is addressed as one of the chief concerns in using technology to restrict content editing …

Clickbait headlines work through superlatives and intensifiers, creating information gaps to
increase the relevance of their associated links that direct users to time-wasting and …

Wikipedia edit-a-thon events provide a targeted approach toward incorporating new
knowledge into the online encyclopedia while also offering pathways toward new editor …

Achenbach, J.(2018, May 25). Did the news media, led by Walter Cronkite, lose the war in
Vietnam? The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www. washingtonpost …

Targeted disinformation plays an important role in the dissemination of hate speech and
extremist ideologies on social media. In the political arena, so-called 'fake news' has …

We focus on scaling up fact checking to very large document collections. Given a
computational cost budget, our goal is to find a maximal number of instances of …