论文标题
WhatsApp可以从揭穿的事实核实的故事中受益，以减少错误信息吗？
Can WhatsApp Benefit from Debunked Fact-Checked Stories to Reduce Misinformation?
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论文摘要
据称，在巴西和印度的选举期间，WhatsApp被广泛用于传播错误信息和宣传。由于whatsapp上消息的私人加密性质，很难在大规模跟踪错误信息的传播。在这项工作中，使用Public WhatsApp数据，我们观察到，即使在受欢迎的事实核对机构已经对WhatsApp公共团体进行了事实检查之后，错误的信息已在很大程度上被分享。这代表了在分析的群体中，在巴西和印度的错误信息传播的很大一部分。我们认为，如果WhatsApp有一种标记已经进行事实检查的内容的方法，则可以防止这种错误信息内容。为此，我们提出了一个可以通过WhatsApp实施的体系结构来反对这种错误信息。我们的建议尊重WhatsApp上当前的端到端加密体系结构，从而保护用户的隐私，同时提供一种方法来检测从事实检查工作中受益的错误信息。
WhatsApp was alleged to be widely used to spread misinformation and propaganda during elections in Brazil and India. Due to the private encrypted nature of the messages on WhatsApp, it is hard to track the dissemination of misinformation at scale. In this work, using public WhatsApp data, we observe that misinformation has been largely shared on WhatsApp public groups even after they were already fact-checked by popular fact-checking agencies. This represents a significant portion of misinformation spread in both Brazil and India in the groups analyzed. We posit that such misinformation content could be prevented if WhatsApp had a means to flag already fact-checked content. To this end, we propose an architecture that could be implemented by WhatsApp to counter such misinformation. Our proposal respects the current end-to-end encryption architecture on WhatsApp, thus protecting users' privacy while providing an approach to detect the misinformation that benefits from fact-checking efforts.
