Can the Crowd Judge Truthfulness? A Longitudinal Study on Recent Misinformation about COVID-19

1 code implementation • 25 Jul 2021 • Kevin Roitero, Michael Soprano, Beatrice Portelli, Massimiliano De Luise, Damiano Spina, Vincenzo Della Mea, Giuseppe Serra, Stefano Mizzaro, Gianluca Demartini

Our results show that: workers are able to detect and objectively categorize online (mis)information related to COVID-19; both crowdsourced and expert judgments can be transformed and aggregated to improve quality; worker background and other signals (e. g., source of information, behavior) impact the quality of the data.

Misinformation