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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Polit. Sci.
Sec. Politics of Technology
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1517726
This article is part of the Research Topic Disinformation Countermeasures and Artificial Intelligence View all 6 articles

The use of Artificial Intelligence in counter-disinformation: a world wide (web) mapping

Provisionally accepted
Federico Pilati Federico Pilati 1,2,3*Tommaso Venturini Tommaso Venturini 3*
  • 1 University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 2 University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
  • 3 University of Geneva, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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    Disinformation has recently become a subject of widespread concerns across the globe. To combat this issue, various initiatives have emerged, aimed at identifying, tracking, and debunking disinformation. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been incorporated as a tool to counter disinformation, but its implementation has not always been successful and may even be counterproductive. Thus, there is a growing recognition of the need for benchmarking the various ongoing efforts to ensure greater efficacy and coordination in the use of AI and assure that this does not lead to forms of algorithmic censorship. Our goal is to provide a mapping of the projects that use AI to counter disinformation by means of their hyperlink network analysis to shed light on their aims, approaches, and challenges.

    Keywords: artificial intelligence, disinformation, Counter-disinformation, Web Mapping, Hyperlink network analysis

    Received: 26 Oct 2024; Accepted: 14 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Pilati and Venturini. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Federico Pilati, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    Tommaso Venturini, University of Geneva, Geneva, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland

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