Multilingual Multimodal Digital Deception Detection and Disinformation Spread across Social Platforms

Maria Glenski, Ellyn Ayton, Josh Mendoza, Svitlana Volkova

Abstract: Our main contribution in this work is novel results of multilingual models that go beyond typical applications of rumor or misinformation detection in English social news content to identify fine-grained classes of digital deception across multiple languages (e.g. Russian, Spanish, etc.). In addition, we present models for multimodal deception detection from images and text and discuss the limitations of image only and text only models. Finally, we elaborate on the ongoing work on measuring deceptive content (in particular disinformation) spread across social platforms.