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        <article-title>Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic: These Evaluation Campaigns Can Help!</article-title>
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          <string-name>Preslav Nakov</string-name>
          <email>pnakov@hbku.edu.qa</email>
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          <institution>Finally, we demonstrate two systems developed at the Qatar Computing Research Institute</institution>
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          <addr-line>HBKU</addr-line>
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          <institution>Qatar Computing Research Institute</institution>
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        <p>The World Health Organization acknowledged that “The 2019-nCoV outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive 'infodemic' ... that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it.” While fighting this infodemic is typically thought of in terms of factuality, the problem is much broader as malicious content includes not only “fake news”, rumors, and conspiracy theories, but also promotion of fake cures, panic, racism, xenophobia, and mistrust in the authorities, among others. Thus, we argue for the need of a holistic approach combining the perspectives of journalists, fact-checkers, policymakers, social media platforms, and society as a whole, and we present our initial work in this direction.</p>
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