CobWeb: A Research Prototype for Exploring User Bias in Political Fact-Checking

07/08/2019

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by   Anubrata Das, et al.

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The effect of user bias in fact-checking has not been explored extensively from a user-experience perspective. We estimate the user bias as a function of the user's perceived reputation of the news sources (e.g., a user with liberal beliefs may tend to trust liberal sources). We build an interface to communicate the role of estimated user bias in the context of a fact-checking task. We also explore the utility of helping users visualize their detected level of bias. 80 indicator for user bias is useful in judging the veracity of a political claim.