Taught at Columbia Journalism School, Fall 2018 Full syllabus and lecture videos at http://www.compjournalism.com/?p=218

1. Frontiers of
Computational Journalism
Columbia Journalism School
Week 10: Truth and Trust
November 28, 2018

2. This class
• Credibility Indicators
• Platform Response
• Automated Fact Checking
• Measuring Information Diffusion

3. Credibility Indicators

4. credibilitycoalition.org

5. credibilitycoalition.org

6. A Structured Response to Misinformation: Defining and Annotating Credibility Indicators in News
Articles, Zhang et. al

7. https://schema.org/ClaimReview

8. Platform Responses

9. Fact Check now available in Google Search and News around the world,
Google Blog April 2017

10. Designing Against Misinformation, Smith, Jackson, Raj, Facebook

11. Information Operations and Facebook, Weedon, Nuland and Stamos

12. Automated Fact Checking

13. Automated Pop Up Fact Checking : Challenges & Progress, Adair et al.

14. Toward Automated Fact-Checking: Detecting Check-worthy Factual Claims by
ClaimBuster, Hassan et al.

15. Toward Automated Fact-Checking: Detecting Check-worthy Factual Claims by
ClaimBuster, Hassan et al.

16. The State of Automated Fact Checking, Babakar and Moy, FullFact, 2016

17. FullFact prototype automated statistical claim checker

18. Given a sentence T does it “entail” a hypotheses H?
In other words, would a human reading T believe that H is true?
Active area of NLP research.
For fact checking:
• Matching existing checks: does the claim entail the claim in the fact
check?
• Finding false statements: Is there evidence entails the claim or its
negation?
Claim checking: entailment

19. Excitement Open Platform architecture diagram

20. The BIUTEE Research Platform for Transformation-based Textual Entailment Recognition
Stern and Dagan

21. A Study of Machine Learning Algorithms
for Recognizing Textual Entailment,
Julio Castillo

22. Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training , Open AI

23. Measuring Information Diffusion

24. http://snap.stanford.edu/nifty/

25. Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle
Leskovec, Backstrom, Kleinberg 2009

26. Breaking Bin Laden: Visualizing The Power Of A Single Tweet, Socialflow

27. KONY2012: See How Invisible Networks Helped a Campaign Capture the World’s Attention,
Gilad Lotan

28. Predicting Pageviews on the New York Times Website, Brian Abelson

29. This Analysis Shows How Viral Fake Election News Stories Outperformed Real News On
Facebook, Craig Silverman, Buzzfeed

30. The Spread of True and False News Online, Vosoughi, Roy, Aral

31. The Spread of True and False News Online, Vosoughi, Roy, Aral

32. The Spread of True and False News Online, Vosoughi, Roy, Aral