Elena Musi|Myrto Aloumpi|Elinor Carmi|Simeon Yates|Kay L. O’Halloran
Developing Fake News Immunity: Fallacies as Misinformation Triggers During the Pandemic
University of Liverpool|University of Crete|City, University of London|University of Liverpool|University of Liverpool
misinformation constitutes one main challenges counter infodemic misleading news even blatantly false cause harm especially crisis scenarios pandemic due fast proliferation information across digital media human factcheckers struggle keep fake news automatic factcheckers able identify grey area misinformation thus propose reverse engineer manipulation information offering citizens means become factcheckers digital literacy critical thinking corpus analysis factchecked news covid19 identify 10 fallaciesarguments seem valid notthat systematically trigger misinformation offer systematic procedure identify next fallacies examine types sources associated misdisinformation dataset well type claims making headlines statistical patterns surfaced three levels analysis reveal misinformation ecosystem source type exempt flawed arguments frequent evading burden proof cherry picking behaviors even descriptive claims stake scenario exercising audiences critical skills fallacy semantic analysis necessary guarantee fake news immunity