Fake news mitigationSocial mediaOpportunitiesFuture challengesFake news, particularly with the speed and reach of unverified/false information dissemination, is a troubling trend with potential political and societal consequences, as evidenced in the 2016 United States presidential election, the ongoing CO...
Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and societal norms. FN is increasingly affecting societal values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics as wel...
In this paper, we present the review on the state-of-the-art of fake news detection mechanisms on social media. We first discuss the background of the problems that are surrounding fake news and the impacts it has on the users. We further describe the definition of fake news and discuss...
Social Science Electronic PublishingKim, Antino; Moravec, Patricia; Dennis, Aalan R. (2017). "Behind the stars: The effects of news source ratings on fake news in social media". Kelley school of business research. Paper n. 18-3.
Social media platforms like Twitter have become common tools for disseminating and consuming news because of the ease with which users can get access to and consume it. This paper focuses on the identification of false news and the use of cutting-edge detection methods in the context of news,...
Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and societal norms. FN is increasingly affecting societal values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics as wel...
This research paper explores the tools and methods used to spread fake news and manipulate public opinion: the services that enable them, their appearance on social media sites, and the motivations behind these activities.
While social media provides space for news to spread, it can also become a hotbed of misinformation. Following the 2016 presidential election in the United States, the topic of fake news has been discussed extensively by policymakers and popular news media, but insufficiently examined empirically. ...
In this paper, we used text mining techniques that have proven themselves to be efficient in many domains, in order to detect fake news by analyzing comments of people responding after reading the news on social media. The experiments were performed in two environments name...
social media. A long time ago, there were rumors in the traditional media that Elvis was not dead,Footnote2that the Earth was flat,Footnote3that aliens had invaded us,Footnote4, etc. Therefore, social media has become nowadays a powerful source for fake news dissemination (Sharma et al.2019...