Combating fake news is one of the burning societal crisis. It is difficult to expose false claims before they create a lot of damage. Automatic fact/claim verification has recently become a topic of interest among diverse research communities. Research efforts and datasets on text fact verification could be found, but there is not much attention towards multi-modal or cross-modal fact-verification. This workshop will encourage researchers from interdisciplinary domains working on multi-modality and/or fact-checking to come together and work on multimodal (images, memes, videos) fact-checking. At the same time, multimodal hate speech detection is an important problem but has not received much attention. Lastly, learning joint modalities his of interest to both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) forums.
Rationale: During the last decade, both the field of studies - NLP and CV have made significant progress due to the success strories of neural network. Mutimodal tasks like visual question-answering (VQA), image captioning, video captioning, caption based image retrieval, etc. started getting into the main spotlight either in NLP/CV forums. Mutimodality is the next big leap for the AI community. De-Factify is a specified forum to discuss on multimodal fake news, and hate speech related challenges. We also encourage discussion on multi-modal tasks in general.

1. Multi-Modal Fact Checking: Social media for news consumption is double edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost, easy access and rapid circulation of information lead people to consume news from social media. On the other hand, it enables the wide spread of fake news, i.e., low quality news with the false information. It affects everyone including government, media, individual, health, law and order, and economy. Therefore, fake news detection on social media has recently become an appealing research topic. We encourage solution to fake news like automated fact checking at scale, early detction of fake news etc.



The image purportedly shows US President Donald Trump in his younger days, shaking hands with global terrorist Osama Bin Laden. It had gone viral during the 2020 US presidential election. The picture also has a quote superimposed on it, praising Laden, which is attributed to Trump.	US President Joe Biden has announced that Americans who have not taken Covid vaccines will be put in quarantine camps and detained indefinitely till they take their shots. - this is absolutely a false claim	A morphed picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going viral on social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. Narendra Modi on July 11 was in Turkmenistan where he visited the Mausoleum of the First President of Turkmenistan, in Ashgabat. A picture was clicked during his visit in which Narendra Modi is seen standing with other religious and political leaders of Turkmenistan. While those leaders are seen raising their hands for dua (Islamic way of prayer), Modi is standing folding his hand. A morphed picture of the event is being shared on social media.	Several people are making a claim on their social media accounts that the CEO of Pfizer had to cancel a planned trip to Israel because he was not fully vaccinated. - the claim is not true.




2. Multi-Modal Hate-Speech ​Hate speech is defined as speech (or any form of expression) that expresses (or seeks to promote, or has the capacity to increase) hatred against a person or a group of people because of a characteristic they share, or a group to which they belong. Twitter develops this definition in its hateful conduct policy as violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. We encourage works that help in detection of Multi-Modal Hate-Speech.

A simple image of few candies on a table. A set of candies are multicolored, while the others are black. The embeded text has a sarcastic twist to portray how blacks should be excluded from a so-called `perfect society'. This is an example of racist message.	In this image former president Donalnd Trump is visible on a glof cart along with a Muslim man wearing a white middle-east dress. The embeded text is offensive towards muslim. The way it being written as if these are being said by Trump.	In this image Jesus Christ is being depicted on a terrorist avatar - wearing sunglasses, having gun in one hand and riding on a Dinosaur. The tagline says "This is America" - it is offesive to both religious and towards the national image of America.	This image showing a lady in a smiling face, whereas the text message depicts clear hate towards LGBT, rather gay to be very specific. The message clarifies sexual orientation is god's will.

1. FACTIFY - Multi-Modal Fact Verification. please visit this link for details.
2. MEMOTION 2 - Task on analysis of memes. please visit this link for details.