Screenshots of social media posts are a common approach for information sharing. Unfortunately, before sharing a screenshot, users rarely verify whether the attribution of the post is fake or real. There are numerous legitimate reasons to share screenshots. However, sharing screenshots of social media posts is also a vector for mis-/disinformation spread on social media. We are exploring methods to verify the attribution of a social media post shown in a screenshot, using resources found on the live web and in web archives. We focus on the use of web archives, since the attribution of non-deleted posts can be relatively easily verified using the live web. We show how information from a Twitter screenshot (Twitter handle, timestamp, and tweet text) can be extracted and used for locating potential archived tweets in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. We evaluate our method on a dataset of 1,571 single tweet screenshots.
翻译:社交媒体帖子的截图是一种常见的信息分享方式。然而遗憾的是,用户在分享截图前很少验证帖子归属的真实性。分享截图存在诸多合理动机,但社交媒体帖子截图同时也是错误信息/虚假信息在社交媒体上传播的载体。我们正在探索利用实时网络和网络存档中的资源,来验证截图中显示的社交媒体帖子归属的方法。我们重点关注网络存档的使用,因为未删除帖子的归属可以通过实时网络相对容易地进行验证。我们展示了如何从推特截图中提取信息(推特账号、时间戳和推文文本),并利用这些信息在互联网档案馆的Wayback Machine中定位可能的存档推文。我们在包含1,571张单条推文截图的数据集上对该方法进行了评估。