We are pleased to announce the Propaganda Detection in Arabic Social Media Text shared task as part of the Workshop on Arabic NLP WANLP2022.

Summary: Propaganda is defined as an expression of opinion or action by individuals or groups deliberately designed to influence the opinions or actions of other individuals or groups with reference to predetermined ends. This is achieved by means of well-defined rhetorical and psychological devices. Currently, propaganda (or persuasion) techniques have been commonly used on social media to manipulate or mislead social media users. More detail on the techniques can be found here: https://propaganda.qcri.org/annotations/definitions.html. The goal of the shared task is to build models for identifying such techniques in Arabic social media text (specifically tweets).

Organizers: Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, and Giovanni Da San Martino.

To find more information about the shared task please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/propaganda-detection-in-arabic 

Looking forward to your participation,

Salam Khalifa (On behalf of the WANLP publicity chairs)