In this post, we explain the basics behind our paper “VERITE: a robust benchmark for multimodal misinformation detection accounting for unimodal bias”, by Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Christos Koutlis, Symeon Papadopoulos and Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis, which has been published in the International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR).
Given the rampant spread of misinformation, the role of fact-checkers becomes increasingly important and their task more challenging given the sheer volume of content generated and shared daily across social media platforms.