Tell Me Why It’s Fake: Developing an Explainable User Interface for a Fake News Detection System
1. Tell Me Why It’s Fake:
Developing an Explainable User Interface for
a Fake News Detection System
Erasmo Purificato, Saijal Shahania, and Ernesto William De Luca
3. “
Disinformation or falsehoods presented as real
news or actual news that is claimed to be untrue.
Fake News definition by the American Dialect Society as 2017 “word of the year”
4. The need of fake news detection tools
◎ Advent and rapid diffusion of internet bots (Ferrara et al., 2016)
◎ 17% of Twitter accounts are suspected to be bots, contributing to 30% of the
number of tweets posted (Liu, 2019)
◎ 500 million tweets published every day (internetlivestats.com, 2021)
14. Next steps
◎ Implementation of “What if…” functionality;
◎ Addition of new explainability methods;
◎ User study with domain experts to assess the effectiveness of the whole system.
15. Thanks!
I am Erasmo Purificato
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https://erasmopurif.com
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erasmo.purificato@ovgu.de