🎧 Episode 31: Can Robots Detect Disinformation?
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/54yqh7/31_Misinfo_detection.m4a
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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