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ArMeme: Propagandistic Content in Arabic Memes

arXiv 2406.03916 ↗First posted 6 Jun 2024cs.CL cs.AI cs.CVcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

With the rise of digital communication, memes have become a significant medium for cultural and political expression that is often used to mislead audiences. Identification of such misleading and persuasive multimodal content has become more important among various stakeholders, including social media platforms, policymakers, and the broader society as they often cause harm to individuals, organizations, and/or society. While there has been effort to develop AI-based automatic systems for resource-rich languages (e.g., English), it is relatively little to none for medium to low resource languages. In this study, we focused on developing an Arabic memes dataset with manual annotations of propagandistic content. We annotated ~6K Arabic memes collected from various social media platforms, which is a first resource for Arabic multimodal research. We provide a comprehensive analysis aiming to develop computational tools for their detection. We will make them publicly available for the community.

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 3; 2025: 2.

5 papers.

  1. 2024ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Contentcited by 11
  2. 2024Propaganda to Hate: A Multimodal Analysis of Arabic Memes with Multi-Agent LLMscited by 8
  3. 2024Nullpointer at ArAIEval Shared Task: Arabic Propagandist Technique Detection with Token-to-Word Mapping in Sequence Taggingcited by 1
  4. 2025Combating Misinformation in the Arab World: Challenges & Opportunitiescited by 0
  5. 2025Detecting Hope, Hate, and Emotion in Arabic Textual Speech and Multi-modal Memes Using Large Language Modelscited by 0