Check News in One Click: NLP-Empowered Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Detection
Veronika Solopova Viktoriia Herman Christoph Benzmüller Tim Landgraf
Many European citizens become targets of the Kremlin propaganda campaigns,
aiming to minimise public support for Ukraine, foster a climate of mistrust and
disunity, and shape elections (Meister, 2022). To address this challenge, we
developed ''Check News in 1 Click'', the first NLP-empowered pro-Kremlin
propaganda detection application available in 7 languages, which provides the
lay user with feedback on their news, and explains manipulative linguistic
features and keywords. We conducted a user study, analysed user entries and
models' behaviour paired with questionnaire answers, and investigated the
advantages and disadvantages of the proposed interpretative solution.