Can Robots Detect Disinformation?

We previously reported that robots can spew out new kinds of disinformation. But can they also help detect and flag it? To find out, Eva talked to researcher Giovanni Da San Martino, who is researching natural language processing at the University of Padova.

Here are some links to relevant studies: https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-tutorials.2.pdf

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1783004

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2104235118 

https://spj.sciencemag.org/journals/hds/2022/9858292/

And we invite you to listen to our story on a Spanish-language news service that targets misinformation.

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