Hans W. A. Hanley汉斯·汉隶

Investigating Patterns of Influence and Propaganda across International News Outlets

Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, Germany · November 24, 2025

How transformer-based models can help combat the global proliferation of misinformation: a system that scalably identifies, tracks, and analyzes the spread of misinformation across thousands of international news websites. Using multilingual Matryoshka embeddings and hierarchical level-wise clustering, it surfaces individual news stories, topics, and overarching themes; multilingual stance detection, natural language inference, and network analysis then assess bias and factual inconsistency to identify outlets that disseminate propaganda.

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