Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has gained increasing
attention from researchers and practitioners as it has proven to be an invaluable technique …

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to
share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories …

Social media use has transformed communication and made social interaction more
accessible. Public microblogs allow people to share and access news through existing and …

In this paper we introduce ArCOV19-Rumors, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset for
misinformation detection composed of tweets containing claims from 27th January till the …

The rapid growth of social media content during the current pandemic provides useful tools
for disseminating information which has also become a root for misinformation. Therefore …

We present the results and the main findings of the NLP4IF-2021 shared tasks. Task 1
focused on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in social media, and it was offered in Arabic …

Recently, the use of social media platforms has increased with ease of use and fast
accessibility, making such platforms a place of rumor proliferation owing to the lack of …

The rise of fake news has been the subject of several research studies in the last decade.
This is due to the increasing number of Internet users and the simplicity in posting news over …

Since the inception of the current COVID-19 pandemic, related misleading information has
spread at a remarkable rate on social media, leading to serious implications for individuals …

Social media platforms have become essential for disseminating news and expressing
individual sentiments on various life topics. Arabic, widely used in the Middle East, presents …