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AgriMisinfo-ID: A Multi-Platform Dataset and Ensemble Transformer-Based Detection System for Agricultural Misinformation in Indonesian Social Media

Darnoto, Brian Rizqi Paradisiaca and Adiwijaya, Nelly Oktavia and Firmawan, Dony Bahtera and Hizham, Fadhel Akhmad and Jannah, Nandini Putri Hanifa and Puspitasari, Talitha and Permana, Fabyan Yastika (2026) AgriMisinfo-ID: A Multi-Platform Dataset and Ensemble Transformer-Based Detection System for Agricultural Misinformation in Indonesian Social Media. Journal of Computing Theories and Applications, 4 (1). pp. 405-422. ISSN 3024-9104

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Abstract

Agricultural misinformation on social media poses risks to Indonesian food security and farmer livelihoods. False claims about fertilizers, pesticides, crop varieties, and farming practices can spread rapidly across social media platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook, as well as through publicly available datasets, potentially influencing agricultural decisions and outcomes. This paper introduces AgriMisinfo-ID, a bilingual, multi-platform dataset for agricultural misinformation detection, containing 5,288 labeled samples collected from social media and supplementary public datasets across Indonesian agricultural contexts. A hybrid detection system is proposed that combines an ensemble of fine-tuned Transformer models, IndoBERT and XLM-RoBERTa, with a Knowledge Verification module that cross-references agricultural claims against Wikidata and Wikipedia. Training uses Focal Loss to address class imbalance, together with GPT-4o-mini-based paraphrase augmentation for minority classes. Across three random seeds, the weighted ensemble achieves an F1-Macro of 0.5870 ± 0.0028 and an accuracy of 0.8027 ± 0.0039 on the test set, outperforming the individual models, a TF-IDF/SVM baseline, and an equal-weight ensemble in terms of F1-Macro. The Knowledge Verification module provides evidence-based verdicts that can support the inspection and auditability of model decisions. This work provides a reproducible benchmark for agricultural misinformation research in bilingual, low-resource settings.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Depositing User: dl fts
Date Deposited: 15 Sep 2026 23:57
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2026 23:57
URI: https://dl.futuretechsci.org/id/eprint/217

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