Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda
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Abstract
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda.This is the second time we are running the workshop virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The pandemic has had a profound effect on the lives of people around the globe and, as much cliché as it may sound, we are all in this together.COVID-19 is the first pandemic in history in which technology and social media are being used on a massive scale to help people stay safe, informed, productive and connected.At the same time, the same technology that we rely on to keep us connected and informed is enabling and amplifying an infodemic that continues to undermine the global response and is detrimental to the efforts to control the pandemic.In the context of the pandemic, we define an infodemic as deliberate attempts to disseminate false information to undermine the public health response and to advance alternative agendas promoted by groups or individuals.We also realize that there is a vicious cycle: the more content is produced, the more misinformation and disinformation expand.The Internet is overloaded with false cures, such as drinking bleach or colloidal silver, conspiracy theories about the virus' origin, false claims that the COVID-19 vaccine will change patient's DNA or will serve to implant in us a tracking microchip, misinformation about methods such masks and social distancing, myths about the dangers and the real-world consequences of COVID-19.The goal of our workshop is to explore how we can address these issues using natural language processing.
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