Multilinguality in Misinformation Detection

This chapter examines the value of multilingualism and how it can be used to address different NLP issues. It first presents a multilingual multimodal misinformation dataset and later discusses a case study of the multilingual multimodal misinformation detection in Tamil, Bengali, and Hindi. The case study determines the impact of multilinguality, novelty, emotion, background knowledge, and multimodality for misinformation detection.