Before revision:  This paper presents: 1) the currently largest available manually annotated COVID-19 disinformation category dataset; and 2) a classification-aware neural topic model (CANTM) that combines classification and topic modelling under a variational autoencoder framework.
After revision:  This paper presents: 1) the currently largest available manually annotated COVID-19 disinformation categories; 2) a classification-aware neural topic model (CANTM) that combines classification and topic modelling under a variational autoencoder framework.