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title = "{C}riti{S}ense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation",
author = "Alam, Firoj and
Ahmad, Fatema and
Shahroor, Ali Ezzat and
Kmainasi, Mohamed Bayan and
Sartori, Elisa and
Da San Martino, Giovanni and
Hasnat, Abul and
Ali, Raian",
editor = "Durrett, Greg and
Jian, Ping",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-demo.48/",
pages = "481--492",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-392-0",
abstract = "Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics *before* they encounter them in the wild. We present *CritiSense*, a mobile media-literacy app that builds these skills through short, interactive challenges with instant feedback. It is the *first* multilingual (supporting nine languages) and modular platform, designed for rapid updates across topics and domains. We report a usability study with 93 users: 83.9{\%} expressed overall satisfaction and 90.1{\%} rated the app as easy to use. Qualitative feedback indicates that *CritiSense* helps improve digital literacy skills. Overall, it provides a multilingual prebunking platform and a testbed for measuring the impact of microlearning on misinformation resilience. Over 6 months, we have reached 500+ active users. It is freely available on the Apple [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/critisense/id6749675792) and Google [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.critisense hl=en)."
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%T CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation
%A Alam, Firoj
%A Ahmad, Fatema
%A Shahroor, Ali Ezzat
%A Kmainasi, Mohamed Bayan
%A Sartori, Elisa
%A Da San Martino, Giovanni
%A Hasnat, Abul
%A Ali, Raian
%Y Durrett, Greg
%Y Jian, Ping
%S Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, United States
%@ 979-8-89176-392-0
%F alam-etal-2026-critisense
%X Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics *before* they encounter them in the wild. We present *CritiSense*, a mobile media-literacy app that builds these skills through short, interactive challenges with instant feedback. It is the *first* multilingual (supporting nine languages) and modular platform, designed for rapid updates across topics and domains. We report a usability study with 93 users: 83.9% expressed overall satisfaction and 90.1% rated the app as easy to use. Qualitative feedback indicates that *CritiSense* helps improve digital literacy skills. Overall, it provides a multilingual prebunking platform and a testbed for measuring the impact of microlearning on misinformation resilience. Over 6 months, we have reached 500+ active users. It is freely available on the Apple [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/critisense/id6749675792) and Google [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.critisense hl=en).
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-demo.48/
%P 481-492
Markdown (Informal)
[CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-demo.48/) (Alam et al., ACL 2026)
ACL
- Firoj Alam, Fatema Ahmad, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Elisa Sartori, Giovanni Da San Martino, Abul Hasnat, and Raian Ali. 2026. CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 481–492, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.