The effect of user bias in fact-checking has not been explored extensively from a user-experience perspective. We estimate the user bias as a function of the user's perceived reputation of the news sources (e.g., a user with liberal beliefs may tend to trust liberal sources). We build an interface to communicate the role of estimated user bias in the context of a fact-checking task. We also explore the utility of helping users visualize their detected level of bias. 80% of the users of our system find that the presence of an indicator for user bias is useful in judging the veracity of a political claim.
@article{arxiv.1907.03718,
title = {CobWeb: A Research Prototype for Exploring User Bias in Political Fact-Checking},
author = {Anubrata Das and Kunjan Mehta and Matthew Lease},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03718},
year = {2019}
}