BATMAN: A Big Data Platform for Misinformation Monitoring

Ivandro Claudino, Luciano Galic, Wellington Franco, Thiago Gadelha, José Maria Monteiro, Javam Machado

2023

Abstract

The large-scale dissemination of misinformation through social media has become a critical issue, harming social stability, democracy, and public health. The WhatsApp instant messaging application is very popular in Brazil, with more than 165 million users. On the other hand, in just one year, the proportion of smartphones with Telegram installed grew in Brazil from 45% to 60% in 2022. If on one hand, these platforms offer security and privacy to its users, on other hand they are spaces with little or no moderation. Consequently,they have been used to spread misinformation. In this context, we present BATMAN, a Big Data Platform for Misinformation Monitoring, a real-time platform for finding, gathering, analyzing, and visualizing misinformation in social networks, in particular, in instant message applications such as WhatsApp and Telegram. To evaluate the proposed platform, we used it to build two different messages datasets, concerning the Brazilian general elections campaign in 2022, obtained from public chat groups on WhatsApp and Telegram, respectively.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Claudino I., Galic L., Franco W., Gadelha T., Maria Monteiro J. and Machado J. (2023). BATMAN: A Big Data Platform for Misinformation Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-648-4, SciTePress, pages 237-246. DOI: 10.5220/0011995500003467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis23,
author={Ivandro Claudino and Luciano Galic and Wellington Franco and Thiago Gadelha and José Maria Monteiro and Javam Machado},
title={BATMAN: A Big Data Platform for Misinformation Monitoring},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2023},
pages={237-246},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011995500003467},
isbn={978-989-758-648-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - BATMAN: A Big Data Platform for Misinformation Monitoring
SN - 978-989-758-648-4
AU - Claudino I.
AU - Galic L.
AU - Franco W.
AU - Gadelha T.
AU - Maria Monteiro J.
AU - Machado J.
PY - 2023
SP - 237
EP - 246
DO - 10.5220/0011995500003467
PB - SciTePress