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As we gather for this meeting physically dispersed and virtually constructed let us take a moment to reflect the meaning of place and doing so recognise the various traditional lands on which we do our business today.
We acknowledge the Elders – past, present and emerging of all the land we work and live on and their Ancestral Spirits with gratitude and respect.
Acknowledgement of Country
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Agenda
Session #1: Opening (1:00PM -1:40PM), Chair by Xiao
Session #2: Keynote (1:40pm – 2:40pm), Chair by Jianxin and Hilya
Afternoon Tea Break (2:40pm: 20 mins)
Session #3: Panel Discussion (3:40pm – 4:30pm), Chair by Hilya
Panellists: Prof. Robert Ackland (ANU), A/Prof. Xiao Liu (Deakin), A/Prof. Jianxin Li (Deakin), Ms. Okky Irmanita (Kiroyan Partners), Ms. Ika Krismantari (The Conversation)
Conclusion: 4:30pm
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Welcome Address
Prof. Bas Baskaran,
Pro Vice-Chancellor International Research Partnership, Deakin University, Australia
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Opening Speech
Dr. Ika Dewi Ana
Vice Rector for Research and Community Service
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
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Welcome Speech
Ms. Caroline Hartnett
Deputy Director, International Education
Global Victoria, Australia
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Fighting against global misinformation on COVID-19 to early detect multi-lingual fake news and mitigation.
Project Progress Report
Jianxin Li, Deakin University
Hilya Mudrika Arini, Universitas Gadjah Mada
PARTNERSHIPS
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Deakin University’s School of Information Technology has world class research capacity in cybersecurity, distributed computing and artificial intelligence.
Gadjah Mada University is one of the oldest and largest institutions of higher education in Indonesia and has well-established networks and partnerships with various industry/government institutions, which provides excellent research and commercialisation opportunities.
Study Melbourne is a Victorian Government initiative providing support and information to this community of international students, helping them have the best possible time while studying and living in Victoria
Veski was established in 2004 to enhance Victoria’s intellectual capital through a program of fellowships, awards and international networks. Veski is at the forefront of Australia’s innovation economy.
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UGM
Dr. Hilya Mudrika Arini
Dr. Yun Prihantina Mulyani
Rian Febrianto
Nurul Lathifah
Dr. Achmad Pratama Rifai
Dr. Titis Wijayanto
Deakin
A/Prof. Xiao Liu
Dr. Hui Yin
Mr. Oscar Wu
Dr. Xiangyu Song
A/Prof. Jianxin Li
Project Team
OUTLINE
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Background
BACKGROUND – Fake news detection
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A General Framework for Fake News Detection
BACKGROUND- Covid-19 Fake news detection
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Fake news was produced in various languages to spread more widely across linguistic groups
Fact-checkers’ rapid responses against misinformation
The public misled by unverified rumors on COVID-19
COVID-19 misinformation tweets circulating
COVID-19 pandemic is currently spreading across the world at an alarming rate
Individual
Multi-lingual
Public Engagement
Fact-Checking Services
Social Media Platform
Project Missions - 3 missions
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Mission 1
Generate Public Dataset
To collect and analyse the data in Australia and Indonesia regarding individual online behaviour characteristics in COVID-19 news propagation and communication.
Mission 2
Multilingual Model Design
To conduct theoretical analysis about the existing fake news detection models, and design a multilingual COVID-19 fake news detection model using advanced machine learning techniques.
Mission 3
Fake News Intervention
To apply the proposed COVID-19 fake news detection method into the process of risk communication management to intervene in the spread of fake news, and help authoritative organisations to generate their customised COVID-19 warning policies.
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Mission 1.1: Online Survey - What we are doing
Conduct online survey of Indonesian and Australian residents to analyze the correlation of people trust level toward the information obtained with the ease of detecting fake news.
From the survey, we collect the information about respondents’ profile, perspectives about Covid-19 in general, level of confidence and trust of Covid-19 during Covid-19 era, and perspectives about Covid-19 news spread in the media, whether it is fake news or real news.
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Indonesian respondents
750
Australian respondents
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Online Survey - What we have done
Will start to distribute questionnaire to Australian residents soon.
For online survey
For dataset
Mission 1.2: DATA COLLECTION
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The general data collection process for fake news detection tasks
DATA COLLECTION
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30,000+
Fact-checking Covid-19 news
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Languages
100+
Fact-checking websites
COLLECTING WORKFLOW
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Defined a list of auto-crawler for various fact-checking websites of specific languages
Collected verified COVID19 news from fact-checking websites
Extracted related social media links (actual tweets) from html format in article webpages
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Current Research Output
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Current Research Output - Example
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Hui Yin, Xiangyu Song, Shuiqiao Yang, Jianxin Li. Sentiment analysis and topic modeling for COVID-19 vaccine discussions. World Wide Web (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-022-01029-y
Prevalent words in tweets from India
Prevalent words in tweets from USA
Prevalent words in tweets from Canada
Prevalent words in tweets from England
Thanks and Questions
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For more information, please visit our project website counterinfodemic.org
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Keynote Speech
Prof. Xiuzhen Jenny Zhang
Associate Dean Higher Degree Research
School of Computing Technologies
RMIT University, Australia
Combating misinformation on the social media: from early detection to effective mitigation
Xiuzhen (Jenny) Zhang is Professor of Data Science at School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University. She specialises in data mining and machine learning, text mining and social media data analytics. She has published over 100 papers in these areas. Her research has been supported by the Australian Research Council, Australian and Victorian governments, as well as industry partners. She is an associate editor of the journal Information Processing and Management. She obtained her PhD from The University of Melbourne.
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Keynote Speech
Dr. Usman Kansong
General Director of Public Communication and Information Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Indonesia
Fake News Detection and Intervention
Dr. Usman Kansong is Director General of Public Communication and Information in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Indonesia. Prior his current role, he was a Chairman of Editorial Board and a News Director in Media Group. He obtained his Ph.D. in Communication Studies in University of Indonesia.
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Afternoon Tea Break for 20mins
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Keynote Speech
Dr. Henry Nguyen,
ARC DECRA Fellow
Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems
Griffith University, Australia
Helping Media to Fight Fake News and Restore the Public Trust
Dr. Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung is a senior lecturer at Griffith University and an ARC DECRA Fellow. He earned his PhD degree from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland). His research interest focuses on Information Systems, Social Media Analytics, Data Visualisation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cyber Defence, with special emphasis on web data, social data and IoT data.
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Panel Discussion
Prof. Robert Ackland School of Sociology & VOSON Lab
The Australian National University, Australia
A/Prof. Jianxin Li
Co-Director of Smart Networks Data Lab School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia
Ms. Okky Irmanita Media Specialist, Kiroyan Partners, Indonesia
Ms. Ika Krismantari Head of Editorial
The Conversation Indonesia
A/Prof. Xiao Liu
Associate Head of School – International School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia
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Question#1: What is your most impressed COVID-19 fake news?
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Question#2: What is the role of academia and media in fighting COVID-19 infodemic?
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Question#3: What is the next agenda in fighting COVID-19 infodemic based on your role in the academia and media?
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Open Discussion
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Workshop Conclusion
Project website:
Questionnaire:
Bahasa version: http://ugm.id/ugmxdeakin
English version: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/COVID19fakenews
Thanks for your participation!
Look forward to seeing you again in our next event!