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Did They Really Tweet That? Querying Fact-Checking Sites and Politwoops to Determine Tweet Misattribution

11/17/2022
by   Caleb Bradford, et al.
Old Dominion University
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Screenshots of social media posts have become common place on social media sites. While screenshots definitely serve a purpose, their ubiquity enables the spread of fabricated screenshots of posts that were never actually made, thereby proliferating misattribution disinformation. With the motivation of detecting this type of disinformation, we researched developing methods of querying the Web for evidence of a tweet's existence. We developed software that automatically makes search queries utilizing the body of alleged tweets to a variety of services (Google, Snopes built-in search, and Reuters built-in search) in an effort to find fact-check articles and other evidence of supposedly made tweets. We also developed tools to automatically search the site Politwoops for a particular tweet that may have been made and deleted by an elected official. In addition, we developed software to scrape fact-check articles from the sites Reuters.com and Snopes.com in order to derive a “truth rating" from any given article from these sites. For evaluation, we began the construction of a ground truth dataset of tweets with known evidence (currently only Snopes fact-check articles) on the live web, and we gathered MRR and P@1 values based on queries made using only the bodies of those tweets. These queries showed that the Snopes built-in search was effective at finding appropriate articles about half of the time with MRR=0.5500 and P@1=0.5333, while Google when used with the site:snopes.com operator was generally effective at finding the articles in question, with MRR=0.8667 and P@1=0.8667.

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