Multilingual Evidence Retrieval and Fact Verification to Combat Global Disinformation: The Power of Polyglotism

This article investigates multilingual evidence retrieval and claim verification as a step to combat global disinformation, a first effort of this kind, to the best of our knowledge. A 400 example mixed language English-Romanian dataset is created for cross-lingual transfer learning evaluation. We make code, datasets, and trained models available upon publication.