{
  "id": 13858730,
  "title": "UkrMeme: Multimodal Explainable Persuasion Detection in Ukrainian Memes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/ukrmeme-multimodal-explainable-persuasion-detection-in-ukrainian-memes",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-09T16:03:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13783v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Memes play a central role in modern online communication, especially in contexts of political conflict where visual and textual cues combine to convey persuasive messages. We study persuasive technique detection in Ukrainian memes using vision-language models (VLMs). We introduce UkrMeme, a dataset of 200 organically produced Ukrainian wartime memes annotated for persuasion techniques, and…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}