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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The CFP for the Student Research Workshop at #EACL2027 is up! 🔗 2027.eacl.org/calls/srw/ ⏰ Pre-submission mentorship deadline: Nov 6, 2026 ⏰ Direct paper submission deadline: Dec 15, 2026 We accept both PhD thesis proposals and regular #nlproc research papers, looking forward to your submissions!

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Call for Student Research Workshop Papers

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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📣 #EACL2027 updates: the Call for Papers is live, and our keynote speakers are confirmed! Main conference: 9–14 March 2027. Special theme: The Human in Language. 🧵👇 2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/

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Call for Papers

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We are proud to announce the release of our (ACL 2026 Oral) benchmark, VeriTaS, for measuring the fact-checking capabilities of LLM agents! In a world of growing fake news, we believe that the ability to verify claims is critical. VeriTaS is multimodal, multilingual, and made of real-world claims.

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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! 🎉 🇬🇷 Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 📅 ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Very happy to announce that DEFAME, our state-of-the-art fact-checking system, got accepted to #ICML! 🎉😀 We published the revision on Arxiv, featuring a *new multimodal fact-checking benchmark*, an extensive table showing previous methods, polished figures, and much more: arxiv.org/abs/2412.10510

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Über 100 "News"-Seiten verbreiten gezielt Falschinformationen, um die #Bundestagswahl zu manipulieren. Dahinter steckt "Storm-1516", nach #Doppelgänger die nächste #Desinformationskampagne der 🇷🇺 Russen.

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🚗 270+ Autos mit Bauschaum im Auspuff - im kompletten Bundesgebiet! Häufig ein Aufkleber der Grünen daneben. Vieles deutet auf eine neue 🇷🇺 russische #Sabotageaktion hin. www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

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Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit @fnfreiheit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Eine aktuelle Umfrage des Instituts Allensbach in unserem Auftrag zeigt: #Desinformation und Verschwörungsmythen sind in der deutschen Bevölkerung weit verbreitet – insbesondere bei jungen Menschen und Nutzerinnen und Nutzern von TikTok. Was denkt ihr? www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Oh je, #Desinformation ist unter jungen Menschen deutlich manifestierter als ich bisher angenommen habe 😥 Die erschreckendste neue Zahl: 50% der TikTok-User bezweifeln, dass #Russland gezielt Falschinformationen streue! www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...

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AFP Faktencheck @faktencheck.afp.com · 20/01/2025

🔎 Prorussische Desinformation nun auch hier auf Bluesky. faktencheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.... ✉ Noch mehr Falschinfos im Netz gesehen? Hinweise an u.afp.com/whatsapphinweise.

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Very unsettling: Over half of young adults view #disinformation as acceptable 🥴 fortune.com/2025/01/19/e... What happens when a world is built on lies? There's no truth, trust, or stability. Then, power simply belongs to the loudest.

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

You think #deepfakes are the most common type of visual misinformation? Nope, it's using pristine media *out of context*. That is, take a real image/video and caption it with a different story. That kind of #cheapfake makes >40% of visual misinfo, deepfakes only <20%

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Saman Nazari @saman-nazari.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Doppelgänger has started operating on Bluesky! We're working on mapping out their tactics and techniques to be able to track the operation.

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Even almost half a year later, our #fact-checking system "InFact" remains the best text-only fact-checker according to the AVeriTeC leaderboard 💪🏻

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Yes, #AI will and already *is* influencing elections. We see #disinformation campaigns (like "Doppelganger") that aim to deform even entire political landscapes 😓 I couldn't agree more with Christian Reuter from @peasec.de. Great article! 👏🏻 www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Turns out, #LLMs tend to generate more false or unsupported claims in later sentences of long outputs. So, better double-check when you ask #ChatGPT to write your next essay. 😉 arxiv.org/abs/2411.15993

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TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Darmstadt zählt laut Start-up Monitor 2024 zu den Top 5 Gründungsstandorten in 🇩🇪 und führt Hessen klar an. Mit einer beeindruckenden Dichte von 9,1 Start-ups pro 100.000 Einwohner:innen ist die Stadt ein Zentrum für Innovationen – eingebettet in das dynamische Rhein-Main-Ökosystem.

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Gründungen: Darmstadt in den Top 5 der Städte

Die Gründungsdynamik in Deutschland nimmt zu: 2024 stieg die Zahl der Start-up-Gründungen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 11 Prozent. 2766 Unternehmen entstanden in diesem Zeitraum neu. Das zeigt der aktu...

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The Poynter Institute @poynterinstitute.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Fact-checkers don’t censor or suppress public debates, they supplement them by weeding out false information to correct misperceptions around false claims. Fact-checking journalism is a crucial safety mechanism, wrote IFCN Director Angie Drobnic Holan in April. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

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Let’s say it plainly: Fact-checking is not censorship - Poynter

Fact-checking adds to the public debate; it doesn’t suppress it

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Peter Cunliffe-Jones @pcunliffejones.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A reminder - “ending fact-checking” is an attack on free speech. Fact-checking is publishing information. Abolishing it on your platform is censorship.

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#Meta ending professional #fact-checking feels like self-disarming in the fight against growing #disinformation. Both quantity AND quality of #fake-news are escalating. Replacing experts with "Community Notes"? A risky move in an info war! There are better solutions www.wired.com/story/meta-d...

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Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump's Second Term

In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

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Mark Rothermel @mrothermel.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We're happy to announce the achievement of a new milestone in the automation of 🕵🏻‍♂️ claim verification: With our LLM-based fact-checking system, we were able to beat all previous work on 3 benchmarks plus win an international fact-checking challenge! 💪🏻

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