Vinicius Woloszyn, Eduardo G. Cortes, Rafael Amantea, Vera Schmitt, Dante A. C. Barone, and Sebastian Möller. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 (WebSci ‘21).
The spreading of disinformation throughout the web has become a critical problem for a democratic society. The dissemination of fake news has become a profitable business and a common practice among politicians and content producers. On the other hand, journalists and fact-checkers work unceasingly to debunk misinformation and prevent it from further spreading. In 2015, a new web markup called ClaimReview has been introduced to grant access to the fact-checking article’s meaning by search engines. It is an important initiative to fight fake news by promoting and highlighting fact-check articles among users. However, barely half of fact-checkers have adopted the ClaimReview markup so far, resulting in low findability of fact-check articles, especially in under represented countries and languages. In this work, we investigate the viability of using Artificial Intelligence for generating ClaimReview automatically. Besides promoting fact-check articles, the automatic generating of ClaimReview is an important step towards the creation of updated multilingual knowledge base for fighting disinformation. Our experiments show noticeable results, which in dicate a viable solution in a production environment. Furthermore, this work has created a benchmark that can be used in upcoming investigations in this domain.