The DISMISS-FAKE workshop is co-located with the 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data (WSDM 2025) and will take place on March 14, 2025 in Hannover, Germany.
All times are stated in Central European Time (GMT + 1)
08:30 - 08:45 Welcome Session (Moderator: Eric Müller-Budack)
08:45 - 09:30 Keynote I (Prof. Krishna Gummadi) (Moderator: Soumi Das)
09:30 - 10:00 Accepted Papers I (7 mins + 3 mins Q&A; Moderator: Soumi Das)
Short Paper: Can LLMs identify the Disinformation they create? Exploring the Role of Large Language Models in Disinformation detection (Pavan Sanjay Nichani, Ayaan Ahmad Siddiqui, Sakshi Tiwarii, Ark Ikhu and Marina Ernst)
Short Paper: Leveraging LLMs for Identifying types of Misinformation on Reddit (Bhavana Ramesh, Durwankur Gursale, Abram Jopaul and Marina Ernst)
Extended Abstract: Leveraging Large Language Models for News Values Analysis (Gullal S. Cheema, Massiollah Azimi, Ralph Ewerth and Eric Müller-Budack)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 Keynote II (Prof. Ritumbra Manuvie; virtual): Content Moderation Under the Digital Services Act (DSA): Tackling Misinformation and Disinformation (Moderator: Apoorva Upadhyaya)
11:15 - 11:45 Accepted Papers II (Long Paper: 10 mins + 5 mins Q&A; Short Paper: 7 mins + 3 mins Q&A; Moderator: Apoorva Upadhyaya)
Long Paper (virtual): Breaking Language Barriers with MMTweets: Advancing Cross-Lingual Debunked Narrative Retrieval for Fact-Checking (Iknoor Singh, Carolina Scarton, Xingyi Song and Kalina Bontcheva)
Short Paper (virtual): Instruction-tuned Quantized Small Language Models (SLMs): A Study on Hallucination Detection (Elijah Soba, Harika Abburi, Nirmala Pudota, Jain Aayush, Balaji Veeramani, Edward Bowen and Sanmitra Bhattacharya)
11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Keynote III (Prof. Huan Liu): From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: New Challenges (Moderator: Eric Müller-Budack)
14:15 - 15:00 Keynote IV (Prof. Preslav Nakov): Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models: Can we Keep LLMs Safe and Factual? (Moderator: Eric Müller-Budack)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Panel Discussion with Prof. Preslav Nakov, Prof. Krishna Gummadi, Prof. Ritumbra Manuvie, Prof. Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, and Prof. Prasenjit Mitra (Moderator: Soumyadeep Roy)
16:30 - 17:00 Discussion & Closing Session (Moderator: Eric Müller-Budack)