  Propaganda is the expression of an opinion or an action by an individual or a
group deliberately designed to influence the opinions or the actions of other
individuals or groups with reference to predetermined ends, which is achieved
by means of well-defined rhetorical and psychological devices. Propaganda
techniques are commonly used in social media to manipulate or to mislead users.
Thus, there has been a lot of recent research on automatic detection of
propaganda techniques in text as well as in memes. However, so far the focus
has been primarily on English. With the aim to bridge this language gap, we ran
a shared task on detecting propaganda techniques in Arabic tweets as part of
the WANLP 2022 workshop, which included two subtasks. Subtask~1 asks to
identify the set of propaganda techniques used in a tweet, which is a
multilabel classification problem, while Subtask~2 asks to detect the
propaganda techniques used in a tweet together with the exact span(s) of text
in which each propaganda technique appears. The task attracted 63 team
registrations, and eventually 14 and 3 teams made submissions for subtask 1 and
2, respectively. Finally, 11 teams submitted system description papers.
