What are the latest progress of false information processing?KDD2022 Tutorial on "Combating Error Information and Copy Media Prejudice"

Source: Specialty

This article is a tutorial, it is recommended to read for 15 minutes

It is necessary for our society to better understand and formulate effective mechanisms to correct errors and prejudice reports.

The development of online platforms has greatly promoted the way people communicate and understand trend events. However, it also generates unprecedented inaccurate or misleading information, because traditional journalism door cannot keep up with the pace of media communication. These unpopular phenomena have led to the tear of society due to irrational beliefs, the impulse fluctuations of the stock market leads to money loss, and during the period of the COVID-19 major epidemic. Essence Even people who do not believe in error information may be troubled by the pollution of unhealthy content around them. This uncomfortable situation is called information confusion. Therefore, it is necessary for our society to better understand and formulate effective mechanisms to correct error information and prejudice reports.

We chose some real -world fake news and its harmful impact on society as the start of the theme of the tutorial, and then conducted a teaching exercise to introduce how humans handle the testing, representation, and correction of fake news. We will point out the conceptual differences of various types of fake news, including the serious fabrication of the error or incidents in the news, and the prestigious clicks of the bait, which aims to be reproduced by traditional news websites and imitations. Real news but contains ironic and ridiculous irony. For example, in general, news articles are more likely to involve serious fabrications, while posts on social media involve more humor such as irony and prank. We will also describe the cognition, society and emotional factors that cause people to form or recognize the error message (such as intuitive thinking, false truth, source clues, emotions, etc.), and the psychological obstacles of knowledge correction after the error information is corrected, including correction or not Integration, selective retrieval and continuous influence theory.

https://khuangaf.github.io/kdd-tutorial-2022/

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Target audience and prerequisite conditions

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Fake news test

Special description of neural fake news generation and testing

Fake news description

Correction of error messages and bias news reporting actions

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