The CyberEquity Lab at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Annotating a Corpus of Facebook Posts to Label Bias and Propaganda in Gaza-Israel War Coverage in Five Languages

This paper presents The_CyberEquity_Lab team's participation in the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task (Zaghouani, et al., 2024).The task is to annotate a corpus of Facebook posts into bias and propaganda in covering the Gaza-Israel war.The posts represent news articles written in five different languages.The paper presents the guidelines of annotation that the team has adhered in identifying both bias and propaganda in coverage of this continuous conflict.