Life and Death of Fakes: On Data Persistence for Manipulative Social Media Content

Olga Uryupina


Abstract
This work presents an in-depth investigation of the data decay for publicly fact-checked online content. We monitor compromised posts on major social media platforms for one year, tracking the changes in their visibility and availability. We show that data persistence is an important issue for manipulative content, on a larger scale than previously reported for online content in general. Our finding also suggest the (much) higher data decay rate for the platforms suffering most from online disinformation, indicating an important area for data collection/preservation.
Anthology ID:
2024.clicit-1.115
Volume:
Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
Month:
December
Year:
2024
Address:
Pisa, Italy
Editors:
Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
Venue:
CLiC-it
SIG:
Publisher:
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Note:
Pages:
1049–1053
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.clicit-1.115/
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Olga Uryupina. 2024. Life and Death of Fakes: On Data Persistence for Manipulative Social Media Content. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 1049–1053, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Cite (Informal):
Life and Death of Fakes: On Data Persistence for Manipulative Social Media Content (Uryupina, CLiC-it 2024)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.clicit-1.115.pdf