The ROMCIR 2021 Workshop
28 October 2022Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval
First Edition
To be held in conjunction with ECIR 2021: The 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval
April 1, 2021 | Lucca, Italy (Online Event)
What we see unfolding right before our eyes is nothing less than Moore’s Law applied to the distribution of mis-information: an exponential growth of available technology coupled with a rapid collapse of costs.
Filloux, F. (2017) You can’t sell news for what it costs to make, The Walkley Magazine on Medium
There is an immediate need to seek workable solutions for the polluted information streams that are now characteristic of our modern, networked, and increasingly polarised world.
Wardle, C., Derakhshan H. (2017) INFORMATION DISORDER: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making. Council of Europe