Disinformation analysis and tracking dashboard

Abstract

The importance of disinformation identification and tracking in the information age is not questionable. War in Ukraine, information attacks in Baltic states, and a number of other disinformation attacks worldwide show that it is becoming a conventional tool in information space. In this paper, we present a disinformation analysis and tracking dashboard. It has 3 main components: Disinformation Analyzer, Match disinformation cases and Model Accuracy. The first component consists of a fined-tuned RoBERTa model for classifying textual input into fake and neutral. The second component contains semantic matching functionality for checking the semantic similarity of input text to the set of known disinformation cases. The third component includes the confusion matrix and model accuracy information. All 3 components have been combined into visual analytics platform for easy inspection and exploration of potential and known disinformation cases. The majority of the work was done during TIDE Hackathon 2023 as a part of the Disinformation Analyzer Challenge.