Automating disinformation detection: the challenges from a social science perspective

Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. The mitigation of online disinformation is an urgent and challenging problem. However, it is also beset with conceptual, practical, and regulatory difficulties. This talk will review these challenges from a social science perspective and contextualise them in terms of the EU's wide-ranging response to the problem. It will also present the concept behind an EU-funded project which seeks to marry technical and social science perspectives as well as presenting original research which addresses the challenge of generating large-scale training data for the development of automated disinformation detection.