Check News in One Click: NLP-Empowered Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Detection

Veronika Solopova, Viktoriia Herman, Christoph Benzmüller, Tim Landgraf


Abstract
Many European citizens become targets of the Kremlin propaganda campaigns, aiming to minimise public support for Ukraine, foster a climate of mistrust and disunity, and shape elections (Meister, 2022). To address this challenge, we developed “Check News in 1 Click”, the first NLP-empowered pro-Kremlin propaganda detection application available in 7 languages, which provides the lay user with feedback on their news, and explains manipulative linguistic features and keywords. We conducted a user study, analysed user entries and models’ behaviour paired with questionnaire answers, and investigated the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed interpretative solution.
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2024.eacl-demo.6
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Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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March
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2024
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St. Julians, Malta
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Nikolaos Aletras, Orphee De Clercq
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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44–51
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Veronika Solopova, Viktoriia Herman, Christoph Benzmüller, and Tim Landgraf. 2024. Check News in One Click: NLP-Empowered Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Detection. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 44–51, St. Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Check News in One Click: NLP-Empowered Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Detection (Solopova et al., EACL 2024)
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