Vol-4069⫷ Vol-4070 ⫸Vol-4071
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DISMISS-FAKE+IWILDS 2025
Disinformation and Misinformation in the Age of Generative AI & Investigating Learning during Web Search 2025

Proceedings of the Joint 1st International Workshop on Disinformation and Misinformation in the Age of Generative AI (DISMISS-FAKE 2025) and the 4th International Workshop on Investigating Learning during Web Search (IWILDS 2025)
co-located with 18th International ACM WSDM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining ( WSDM 2025 )

Hannover, Germany, March 14, 2025 .

Edited by

Koustav Rudra ¹
Niloy Ganguly ¹
Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici ²
Eric Müller-Budack ³
Ritumbra Manuvie ²
Anett Hoppe ⁴
Ran Yu ⁵
Jiqun Liu ⁶
Nilavra Bhattacharya ⁷

¹ Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , Kharagpur, India
² University of Groningen , Groningen, The Netherlands
³ TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology , Hannover, Germany
⁴ Philipps University Marburg & Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI) , Marburg, Germany
⁵ GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences , Cologne, Germany
⁶ University of Oklahoma , Norman, OK, United States
⁷ ABB Corporate Research Centre , Mannheim, Germany

Table of Contents

Preface
Summary: There were 8 papers submitted for peer review to this joint workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume, 3 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

Workshop on Disinformation and Misinformation in the Age of Generative AI

Breaking Language Barriers with MMTweets: Advancing Cross-Lingual Debunked Narrative Retrieval for Fact-Checking 1-19
Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Xingyi Song , Kalina Bontcheva
Can LLMs identify the Disinformation they create? Exploring the Role of Large Language Models in Disinformation Detection 21-30
Pavan Sanjay Nichani , Ayaan Ahmad Siddiqui , Sakshi Tiwarii , Ark Ikhu , Marina Ernst
Instruction-tuned Quantized Small Language Models (SLMs): A Study on Hallucination Detection 31-37
Elijah Soba , Harika Abburi , Nirmala Pudota , Jain Aayush , Balaji Veeramani , Edward Bowen , Sanmitra Bhattacharya
Leveraging LLMs for Identifying types of Misinformation on Reddit 39-46
Bhavana Ramesh , Durwankur Gursale , Abram Jopaul , Marina Ernst
Leveraging Large Language Models for News Values Analysis (Extended Abstract) 47-50
Gullal S. Cheema , Massiollah Azimi

Investigating Learning during Web Search

Video Features for Predicting Knowledge Gain in Search as Learning 51-63
Wolfgang Bitter , Ralph Ewerth , Anett Hoppe

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