AI Fact-Checking as a Rhetorical Weapon: Evidence from Turkish Twitter

AI Fact-Checking as a Rhetorical Weapon: Evidence from Turkish Twitter

Akin Unver (Ozyegin University) presents his research at the inaugural Tech for Open Minds Annual Conference at Duke University on April 2, 2026. Analyzing behavior on Turkish Twitter, he shows that users are not deploying AI fact-checking tools like Grok to update their beliefs — they are using them as weapons in rhetorical fights. The talk walks through the methodological approach, including a notebook demonstration, and discusses what this pattern reveals about AI, democracy, and the limits of fact-checking as a remedy for misinformation.