Vol-2890
urn:nbn:de:0074-2890-4

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MISINFO 2021
Workshop on Misinformation Integrity in Social Networks 2021

Proceedings of the Workshop on Misinformation Integrity in Social Networks 2021
co-located with 30th The Web Conference (TheWebConf 2021)

Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 15, 2021.

Edited by

Luis Garcia Pueyo*
Anand Bhaskar *
Prathyusha Senthil Kumar *
Panayiotis Tsaparas
Kiran Garimella *
Yu Sun *
Francesco Bonchi **

* Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, USA
** University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
** Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
*** Twitter, San Francisco, CA, USA
**** ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy

Table of Contents

Preface
The workshop focuses on problems related to Information Integrity in Social Networks, and more specifically, Misinformation and Polarization. The workshop combines invited talks along with contributed talks. There are 6 invited talks. There were 9 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 4 papers were accepted for this volume as regular papers .

Invited Talks

Measuring Belief in Fake News in Real-Time (Extended Abstract)
Joshua A. Tucker
Understanding and Reducing the Spread of Misinformation Online (Extended Abstract)
David Rand
Combating Misinformation (Extended Abstract)
Lenny Grokop
Computational Fact Checking is Real, but will it Stop Misinformation? (Extended Abstract)
Paolo Papotti
Combating Inaccurate Information on Social Media (Extended Abstract)
Mohsen Mosleh
New Frontiers for Fake News Research on Social Media in 2021 and Beyond -- Extended Abstract
Nir Grinberg

Contributed Talks

Memes to an End: A Look into what makes a Meme Offensive.
Yehia Elkhatib, Kieran Hill
Can Celebrities Burst Your Bubble?
Tugrulcan Elmas, Kristina Hardi, Rebekah Overdorf, Karl Aberer
An Automatic Framework to Continuously Monitor Multi-Platform Information Spread
Zhouhan Chen, Kevin Aslett, Jen Rosiere Reynolds, Juliana Freire, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker, Richard Bonneau
An Analysis of People's Reasoning for Sharing Real and Fake News
Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano

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