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In his talk, Hans W. A. Hanley demonstrates how recent advancements in transformer-based models can help combat the global proliferation of misinformation. Specifically, he proposes and develops a system leveraging these models to help scalably identify, track, and analyze the spread of misinformation across thousands of international news websites. By employing novel multilingual Matryoshka embeddings and hierarchical level-wise clustering, his proposed system identifies individual news stories, topics, and overarching themes across news outlets. Utilizing multilingual stance detection, natural language inference, and network analysis, his system further assesses biases and factual inconsistencies in news articles, enabling the identification of websites and networks that disseminate propaganda or misinformation.
His approach illustrates how narrative-based tracking and deep natural language understanding can track multilingual and international news stories, support reporting and fact-checking, and ultimately help mitigate the global spread of misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.
About Hans W. A. Hanley
Hans W. A. Hanley is a Research Scientist at Meta. Hans is broadly interested in disinformation, networks, and natural language processing. Hans was formerly a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University researching in the Empirical Security Research Group and supported by the Meta PhD Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Stanford University EDGE Fellowship. Hans completed two Masters’ degrees in Computer Science and in Statistics with the Daniel M. Sachs Scholarship at the University of Oxford. Hans completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.
Information on participating / attending:
Online via Zoom
Date:
11/24/2025 14:00 - 11/24/2025 15:30
Event venue:
online
Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Information technology
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
11/14/2025
Sender/author:
Katharina Stefes
Department:
Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event80512
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