Can GPT-4 Identify Propaganda? Annotation and Detection of Propaganda Spans in News Articles

arXiv:2402.17478v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The use of propaganda has spiked on mainstream and social media, aiming to manipulate or mislead users. While efforts to automatically detect propaganda techniques in textual, visual, or multimodal content have increased, most of them primarily focus on English content. The majority of the recent initiatives targeting medium to low-resource languages produced relatively small annotated datasets, with a skewed distribution, posing challenges for the development of sophisticated propaganda detection models. To address this challenge, we …

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