Schedule

Time Type Speaker(s)/Author(s) Title
2:00pm – 2:05pm Opening Workshop Organizer(s) Introduction to the Workshop
2:05pm – 2:50pm Keynote Yelena Mejova Anti-vaccination Echo Chambers
2:50pm – 3:05pm Abstract Haline Maia (online) Disinformation and health: A systematic review study on health automatic fact-checking during the pandemic
3:05pm – 3:25pm Short Paper Niloofar Yousefi, Nahiyan Bin Noor, Billy Spann, and Nitin Agarwal (online) Towards Developing a Measure to Assess Contagiousness of Toxic Tweets
3:25pm – 3:45pm Short Paper Abhishek Roy and Ashley Marie Walker (online) Ecologies of Conspiracy Influencers: A Creator-Centered Lens on Understanding Multiplatform Strategies
3:45pm – 4:30pm Keynote Anatoliy Gruzd Studying the COVID-19 Infodemic at Scale
4:30pm – 4:55pm Full Paper Yida Mu, Ye Jiang, Freddy Heppell, Iknoor Singh, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, and Xingyi Song (online) A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Accurate COVID-19 Information versus Misinformation
4:55pm – 5:20pm Full Paper Lwin Moe, Arghya Kundu, and Uyen Trang Nguyen (online) A BERT-based Explainable System for COVID-19 Misinformation Identification
5:20pm – 5:30pm Closing Workshop Organizer(s), all Final discussion