Abstract
Any report frames issues to favor a particular interpretation by highlighting or excluding certain aspects of a story. Despite the widespread use of framing in disinformation, framing properties and detection methods remain underexplored outside the English-speaking world. We explore how multilingual framing of the same issue differs systematically. We use eight years of Russia-backed disinformation campaigns, spanning 8k news articles in 4 languages targeting 15 countries. We find that disinformation campaigns consistently and intentionally favor specific framing, depending on the target language of the audience. We further discover how Russian-language articles consistently highlight selected frames depending on the region of the media coverage. We find that the two most prominent models for automatic frame analysis underperform and show high disagreement, highlighting the need for further research.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.acl-srw.21
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Editors:
- Xiyan Fu, Eve Fleisig
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 225–237
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-srw.21
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Antonina Sinelnik and Dirk Hovy. 2024. Narratives at Conflict: Computational Analysis of News Framing in Multilingual Disinformation Campaigns. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), pages 225–237, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Narratives at Conflict: Computational Analysis of News Framing in Multilingual Disinformation Campaigns (Sinelnik & Hovy, ACL 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.acl-srw.21.pdf