Retrieval Augmented Verification: Unveiling Disinformation with Structured Representations for Zero-Shot Real-Time Evidence-guided Fact-Checking of Multi-modal Social media posts
CoRR(2024)
Abstract
Social Media posts, where real images are unscrupulously reused along with
provocative text to promote a particular idea, have been one of the major
sources of disinformation. By design, these claims are without editorial
oversight and accessible to a vast population who otherwise may not have access
to multiple information sources. This implies the need to fact-check these
posts and clearly explain which parts of the posts are fake. In the supervised
learning setup, this is often reduced to a binary classification problem,
neglecting all intermediate stages. Further, these claims often involve recent
events on which systems trained on historical data are prone to fail. In this
work, we propose a zero-shot approach by retrieving real-time web-scraped
evidence from multiple news websites and matching them with the claim text and
image using pretrained language vision systems. We propose a graph structured
representation, which a) allows us to gather evidence automatically and b)
helps generate interpretable results by explicitly pointing out which parts of
the claim can not be verified. Our zero-shot method, with improved
interpretability, generates competitive results against the state-of-the-art
methods
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