Nadav Borenstein

If you are attending #ACL2025, come and check out our cool poster on Wednesday at 11 am!

(Oh yeah, I forgot to announce that the paper got accepted to the main proceedings of #ACL2025, oops)

28.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

I am happy to share that the paper got accepted to the main proceedings of ACL 2025 in Vienna! See you there!

arxiv.org/abs/2502.14132

28.05.2025 06:42 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Massive congrats to @nadavb.bsky.social for passing his PhD defence yesterday! 👏👏👏
Thanks to Anders Søgaard, @radamihalcea.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social for serving as examiners.
You can find his thesis here, which the committee characterised as "a joy to read": arxiv.org/abs/2503.07395

20.03.2025 15:00 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This, in turn, will limit the efficacy of community notes, particularly for high-stakes claims related to health and broader conspiracy narratives.

Work done with @gretawarren.bsky.social, @delliott.bsky.social, and @iaugenstein.bsky.social.

21.02.2025 10:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fig. 3. strategies in debunking claims related to broader nar- ratives. (b) the different ways in which fact-checking sources are used to debunk claims. Fig. 4. Distribution of notes’ topics, with and without a fact- checking source. Fig. 5. Percentage of samples related to a broader narrative or conspiracy vs. have a fact-checking source.

Fact-checkers conduct in-depth research beyond the reach of amateur users, while community notes publicise their work. The move to end partnerships and funding for fact-checking agencies will hinder their ability to pursue investigative journalism, which community note writers rely on.

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This work examines how this recent development might impact the efforts to combat misinformation spread on social media by studying fact-checking’s role in Twitter’s community notes.

We find that community notes and professional fact-checking are deeply interconnected:

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The current political climate has prompted Meta to shift away from partnerships with fact-checkers to increased reliance on crowdsourced community notes—the model used by Twitter.

21.02.2025 10:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can Community Notes Replace Professional Fact-Checkers? Work done by Nadav Borenstein, Greta Warren, Desmond Elliott, and Isabelle Augenstein.

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬?

(arxiv.org/abs/2502.14132)

Fact-checking agencies have come under intense scrutiny in recent months regarding their role in combating misinformation on social media.

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20.11.2024 14:45 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1