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The way the media presents events can significantly affect public perception, which in turn can alter people's beliefs and views. Media bias describes a one-sided or polarizing perspective on a topic. This article summarizes the research on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Timo Spinde , Smi Hinterreiter , Fabian Haak , Terry Ruas , Helge Giese , Norman Meuschke , Bela Gipp

Biased news contributes to societal polarization and is often reinforced by hostile reader comments, constituting a vital yet often overlooked aspect of news dissemination. Our study reveals that offensive comments support biased content,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Luyang Lin , Zijin Feng , Lingzhi Wang , Kam-Fai Wong

Many people consider news articles to be a reliable source of information on current events. However, due to the range of factors influencing news agencies, such coverage may not always be impartial. Media bias, or slanted news coverage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-26 T. Spinde , L. Rudnitckaia , K. Sinha , F. Hamborg , B. Gipp , K. Donnay

We present an automated method for measuring media bias. Inferring which newspaper published a given article, based only on the frequencies with which it uses different phrases, leads to a conditional probability distribution whose analysis…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Samantha D'Alonzo , Max Tegmark

The proliferation of biased news narratives across various media platforms has become a prominent challenge, influencing public opinion on critical topics like politics, health, and climate change. This paper introduces the "Navigating News…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shaina Raza

Media has a substantial impact on the public perception of events. A one-sided or polarizing perspective on any topic is usually described as media bias. One of the ways how bias in news articles can be introduced is by altering word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Timo Spinde , Jan-David Krieger , Terry Ruas , Jelena Mitrović , Franz Götz-Hahn , Akiko Aizawa , Bela Gipp

In recent years, social media companies have grappled with defining and enforcing content moderation policies surrounding political content on their platforms, due in part to concerns about political bias, disinformation, and polarization.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jacob Thebault-Spieker , Sukrit Venkatagiri , Naomi Mine , Kurt Luther

Mainstream media, through their decisions on what to cover and how to frame the stories they cover, can mislead readers without using outright falsehoods. Therefore, it is crucial to have tools that expose these editorial choices underlying…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jenny S Wang , Samar Haider , Amir Tohidi , Anushkaa Gupta , Yuxuan Zhang , Chris Callison-Burch , David Rothschild , Duncan J Watts

Bias is a common problem in today's media, appearing frequently in text and in visual imagery. Users on social media websites such as Twitter need better methods for identifying bias. Additionally, activists --those who are motivated to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Vishwajeet Narwal , Mohamed Hashim Salih , Jose Angel Lopez , Angel Ortega , John O'Donovan , Tobias Höllerer , Saiph Savage

Bias in news reporting significantly impacts public perception, particularly regarding crime, politics, and societal issues. Traditional bias detection methods, predominantly reliant on human moderation, suffer from subjective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Chen Wei Kuo , Kevin Chu , Nouar AlDahoul , Hazem Ibrahim , Talal Rahwan , Yasir Zaki

Recent research shows that visualizing linguistic bias mitigates its negative effects. However, reliable automatic detection methods to generate such visualizations require costly, knowledge-intensive training data. To facilitate data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Smi Hinterreiter , Timo Spinde , Sebastian Oberdörfer , Isao Echizen , Marc Erich Latoschik

News articles both shape and reflect public opinion across the political spectrum. Analyzing them for social bias can thus provide valuable insights, such as prevailing stereotypes in society and the media, which are often adopted by NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Maximilian Spliethöver , Maximilian Keiff , Henning Wachsmuth

The news media shape public opinion, and often, the visual bias they contain is evident for human observers. This bias can be inferred from how different media sources portray different subjects or topics. In this paper, we model visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Christopher Thomas , Adriana Kovashka

Media outlets are becoming more partisan and polarized nowadays. Most previous work focused on detecting media bias. In this paper, we aim to mitigate media bias by generating a neutralized summary given multiple articles presenting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuanyuan Lei , Ruihong Huang

Public Good Software's products match journalistic articles and other narrative content to relevant charitable causes and nonprofit organizations so that readers can take action on the issues raised by the articles' publishers. Previously…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Eric Kingery , Michael S. Manley , Daniel Ratner

Media coverage possesses a substantial effect on the public perception of events. The way media frames events can significantly alter the beliefs and perceptions of our society. Nevertheless, nearly all media outlets are known to report…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Timo Spinde , Christina Kreuter , Wolfgang Gaissmaier , Felix Hamborg , Bela Gipp , Helge Giese

Automatic unreliable news detection is a research problem with great potential impact. Recently, several papers have shown promising results on large-scale news datasets with models that only use the article itself without resorting to any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Xiang Zhou , Heba Elfardy , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Thomas Butler , Mohit Bansal

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

Media bias is a multifaceted problem, leading to one-sided views and impacting decision-making. A way to address digital media bias is to detect and indicate it automatically through machine-learning methods. However, such detection is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Smi Hinterreiter , Martin Wessel , Fabian Schliski , Isao Echizen , Marc Erich Latoschik , Timo Spinde

Bias assessment of news sources is paramount for professionals, organizations, and researchers who rely on truthful evidence for information gathering and reporting. While certain bias indicators are discernible from content analysis,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Dairazalia Sánchez-Cortés , Sergio Burdisso , Esaú Villatoro-Tello , Petr Motlicek