Raian Ali
2026
CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation
Firoj Alam | Fatema Ahmad | Ali Ezzat Shahroor | Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi | Elisa Sartori | Giovanni Da San Martino | Abul Hasnat | Raian Ali
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Firoj Alam | Fatema Ahmad | Ali Ezzat Shahroor | Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi | Elisa Sartori | Giovanni Da San Martino | Abul Hasnat | Raian Ali
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics before they encounter them in the wild. We present CritiSense, a mobile media-literacy app that builds these skills through short, interactive challenges with instant feedback. It is the first multilingual (supporting nine languages) and modular platform, designed for rapid updates across topics and domains. We report a usability study with 93 users: 83.9% expressed overall satisfaction and 90.1% rated the app as easy to use. Qualitative feedback indicates that CritiSense helps improve digital literacy skills. Overall, it provides a multilingual prebunking platform and a testbed for measuring the impact of microlearning on misinformation resilience. Over 6 months, we have reached 500+ active users. It is freely available on the Apple App Store and Google [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.critisense hl=en).