A Real-Time Platform to Monitoring Misinformation on Telegram

Ivandro Claudino, Thiago Gadelha, Tiago Vinuto, José Wellington Franco, José Maria Monteiro, Javam Machado

2023

Abstract

The large-scale dissemination of misinformation through social media has become a critical issue, harming public health, social stability and democracy. In Brazil, 79.9% of the population uses social networks, and the Telegram is present in 65% of the country’s smartphones. Due to its popularization, many groups have used this instant messaging application to spread misinformation, especially as part of articulated political or ideological campaigns. Telegram provides two essential features that facilitate the spread of misinformation, public groups and channels. Through these resources, false information can deceive thousands of people in a short time. In this context, we present MST, a Real-Time platform to find, gather, analyze and visualize misinformation on Telegram. To evaluate the proposed platform, we built a dataset from the Brazilian general election campaign in 2022, obtained from Telegram public chat groups and channels.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Claudino I., Gadelha T., Vinuto T., Wellington Franco J., Maria Monteiro J. and Machado J. (2023). A Real-Time Platform to Monitoring Misinformation on Telegram. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-648-4, SciTePress, pages 271-278. DOI: 10.5220/0012039100003467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis23,
author={Ivandro Claudino and Thiago Gadelha and Tiago Vinuto and José Wellington Franco and José Maria Monteiro and Javam Machado},
title={A Real-Time Platform to Monitoring Misinformation on Telegram},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2023},
pages={271-278},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012039100003467},
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 - A Real-Time Platform to Monitoring Misinformation on Telegram
SN - 978-989-758-648-4
AU - Claudino I.
AU - Gadelha T.
AU - Vinuto T.
AU - Wellington Franco J.
AU - Maria Monteiro J.
AU - Machado J.
PY - 2023
SP - 271
EP - 278
DO - 10.5220/0012039100003467
PB - SciTePress