Noushin Salek Faramarzi

Paying Attention to Deflections: Mining Pragmatic Nuances for Whataboutism Detection in Online Discourse

Whataboutism, a potent tool for disrupting narratives and sowing distrust, remains under-explored in quantitative NLP research. Moreover, past work has not distinguished its use as a strategy for misinformation and propaganda from its use as a tool for pragmatic and semantic framing. We introduce ne…