Auditing and Robustifying COVID-19 Misinformation Datasets via
  Anticontent Sampling
Clay H. Yoo Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh
This paper makes two key contributions. First, it argues that highly
specialized rare content classifiers trained on small data typically have
limited exposure to the richness and topical diversity of the negative class
(dubbed anticontent) as observed in the wild. As a result, these classifiers'
strong performance observed on the test set may not translate into real-world
settings. In the context of COVID-19 misinformation detection, we conduct an
in-the-wild audit of multiple datasets and demonstrate that models trained with
several prominently cited recent datasets are vulnerable to anticontent when
evaluated in the wild. Second, we present a novel active learning pipeline that
requires zero manual annotation and iteratively augments the training data with
challenging anticontent, robustifying these classifiers.