Mark Rothermel
@mrothermel.bsky.social
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Multimodal Fact-Checking with AI PhD @ TU Darmstadt 🇩🇪 ✉️ t.me/real_maggi 🌐 rothermel.me
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Very happy to announce that DEFAME, our state-of-the-art fact-checking system, got accepted to
#ICML
! 🎉😀 We published the revision on Arxiv, featuring a *new multimodal fact-checking benchmark*, an extensive table showing previous methods, polished figures, and much more:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.10510
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How close are we to automating fact-checking with
#AI
? 🎤🖥️ On August 27, I’ll give an online talk at the AI Academy of
@hessianai.bsky.social
, covering modern forms of fake news, state-of-the-art systems, and the biggest open challenges.
www.linkedin.com/posts/hessia...
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📯𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲! | hessian.AI
📯𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲! 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸! The💡AI Academy is a series on current AI topics at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical application designed for 🎯AI experts, learners...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hessian-ai-the-hessian-center-for-artificial-intelligence_talk-speaker-details-activity-7358427127429353473-QAvQ
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Very happy to announce that DEFAME, our state-of-the-art fact-checking system, got accepted to
#ICML
! 🎉😀 We published the revision on Arxiv, featuring a *new multimodal fact-checking benchmark*, an extensive table showing previous methods, polished figures, and much more:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.10510
4 months ago
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Über 100 "News"-Seiten verbreiten gezielt Falschinformationen, um die
#Bundestagswahl
zu manipulieren. Dahinter steckt "Storm-1516", nach
#Doppelgänger
die nächste
#Desinformationskampagne
der 🇷🇺 Russen.
8 months ago
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🚗 270+ Autos mit Bauschaum im Auspuff - im kompletten Bundesgebiet! Häufig ein Aufkleber der Grünen daneben. Vieles deutet auf eine neue 🇷🇺 russische
#Sabotageaktion
hin.
www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
8 months ago
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Community Notes (die heiße Alternative zu Fact-Checkern) seien "demokratischer" 🤨
www.welt.de/kultur/medie...
Willkommen in einer Realität, in der Fakten nicht von Tatsachen, sondern Mehrheiten bestimmt werden.
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Zuckerberg: Darum sind Community Notes professionellen Faktenprüfern klar überlegen - WELT
Droht nach der Abschaffung der „Faktenchecker“ eine „Welt ohne Fakten“? Das behaupten Kritiker der Entscheidung von Mark Zuckerberg. Sie irren: Das System der Community Notes ist transparenter und dem...
https://www.welt.de/kultur/medien/plus255194824/Zuckerberg-Darum-sind-Community-Notes-professionellen-Faktenpruefern-klar-ueberlegen.html
8 months ago
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Mark Rothermel
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit
8 months ago
Eine aktuelle Umfrage des Instituts Allensbach in unserem Auftrag zeigt:
#Desinformation
und Verschwörungsmythen sind in der deutschen Bevölkerung weit verbreitet – insbesondere bei jungen Menschen und Nutzerinnen und Nutzern von TikTok. Was denkt ihr?
www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...
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Oh je,
#Desinformation
ist unter jungen Menschen deutlich manifestierter als ich bisher angenommen habe 😥 Die erschreckendste neue Zahl: 50% der TikTok-User bezweifeln, dass
#Russland
gezielt Falschinformationen streue!
www.freiheit.org/de/deutschla...
8 months ago
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Mark Rothermel
AFP Faktencheck
8 months ago
🔎 Prorussische Desinformation nun auch hier auf Bluesky.
faktencheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
✉ Noch mehr Falschinfos im Netz gesehen? Hinweise an
u.afp.com/whatsapphinweise
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Very unsettling: Over half of young adults view
#disinformation
as acceptable 🥴
fortune.com/2025/01/19/e...
What happens when a world is built on lies? There's no truth, trust, or stability. Then, power simply belongs to the loudest.
8 months ago
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You think
#deepfakes
are the most common type of visual misinformation? Nope, it's using pristine media *out of context*. That is, take a real image/video and caption it with a different story. That kind of
#cheapfake
makes >40% of visual misinfo, deepfakes only <20%
8 months ago
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Mark Rothermel
Saman Nazari
9 months ago
Doppelgänger has started operating on Bluesky! We're working on mapping out their tactics and techniques to be able to track the operation.
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Even almost half a year later, our
#fact-checking
system "InFact" remains the best text-only fact-checker according to the AVeriTeC leaderboard 💪🏻
9 months ago
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Yes,
#AI
will and already *is* influencing elections. We see
#disinformation
campaigns (like "Doppelganger") that aim to deform even entire political landscapes 😓 I couldn't agree more with Christian Reuter from
@peasec.de
. Great article! 👏🏻
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7282048915271516161-VoD2/
9 months ago
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Turns out,
#LLMs
tend to generate more false or unsupported claims in later sentences of long outputs. So, better double-check when you ask
#ChatGPT
to write your next essay. 😉
arxiv.org/abs/2411.15993
9 months ago
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Mark Rothermel
TU Darmstadt
9 months ago
Darmstadt zählt laut Start-up Monitor 2024 zu den Top 5 Gründungsstandorten in 🇩🇪 und führt Hessen klar an. Mit einer beeindruckenden Dichte von 9,1 Start-ups pro 100.000 Einwohner:innen ist die Stadt ein Zentrum für Innovationen – eingebettet in das dynamische Rhein-Main-Ökosystem.
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Gründungen: Darmstadt in den Top 5 der Städte
Die Gründungsdynamik in Deutschland nimmt zu: 2024 stieg die Zahl der Start-up-Gründungen im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 11 Prozent. 2766 Unternehmen entstanden in diesem Zeitraum neu. Das zeigt der aktu...
https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/aktuelles_meldungen/einzelansicht_489664.de.jsp
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Universities in 🇩🇪 mass-leaving X. Consequent move, fully supporting the
#Xit
! 👍🏻
www.zeit.de/digital/2025...
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Desinformation auf X: Dutzende Hochschulen legen ihre X-Accounts still
In einer gemeinsamen Aktion verlassen mehr als 60 Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen die Plattform X. Sie wollen ein Zeichen gegen Hass und Hetze setzen.
https://www.zeit.de/digital/2025-01/hochschulen-rueckzug-plattform-x
9 months ago
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Mark Rothermel
The Poynter Institute
9 months ago
Fact-checkers don’t censor or suppress public debates, they supplement them by weeding out false information to correct misperceptions around false claims. Fact-checking journalism is a crucial safety mechanism, wrote IFCN Director Angie Drobnic Holan in April.
www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
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Let’s say it plainly: Fact-checking is not censorship - Poynter
Fact-checking adds to the public debate; it doesn’t suppress it
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/fact-checking-is-not-censorship/
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Peter Cunliffe-Jones
9 months ago
A reminder - “ending fact-checking” is an attack on free speech. Fact-checking is publishing information. Abolishing it on your platform is censorship.
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#Meta
ending professional
#fact-checking
feels like self-disarming in the fight against growing
#disinformation
. Both quantity AND quality of
#fake-news
are escalating. Replacing experts with "Community Notes"? A risky move in an info war! There are better solutions
www.wired.com/story/meta-d...
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Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump's Second Term
In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/
9 months ago
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We're happy to announce the achievement of a new milestone in the automation of 🕵🏻♂️ claim verification: With our LLM-based fact-checking system, we were able to beat all previous work on 3 benchmarks plus win an international fact-checking challenge! 💪🏻
10 months ago
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