In this modern era, misleading news is easily transmitted and spread through different social media platforms and has become a big threat to the reliability of the news. Because of the growth of online social media, fake information does have a significant impact on society. Twitter is one of...
The growth of social media has revolutionized the way people access information. Although platforms like Facebook and Twitter allow for a quicker, wider and less restricted access to information, they also consist of a breeding ground for the disseminati
The spread of fake news on social media became a public concern in the United States after the 2016 presidential election. We examined exposure to and sharing of fake news by registered voters on Twitter and found that engagement with fake news sources was extremely concentrated. Only 1% of ind...
系统标签: fake news twitter election presidential sources POLITICALSCIENCE FakenewsonTwitterduringthe2016 U.S.presidentialelection NirGrinberg 1,2 *,KennethJoseph 3 *,LisaFriedland 1 *, BrionySwire-Thompson 1,2 ,DavidLazer 1,2 † ThespreadoffakenewsonsocialmediabecameapublicconcernintheUnitedStates...
Let there be no alternative facts aboutKanye West, please. The rapper and Yeezy apparel company founderreturned to Twitterearlier this month after a year-long hiatus and went on a fresh tweeting spree on Wednesday to debunk what he says is "fake news" about himself. ...
“no current plans to launch anything along the lines described,” and is not currently building such a tool. the company did not comment on whether twitter had previously tried building a fake-news button. the concept is reminiscent of a similar feature facebook recently implemented. late last...
Information quality in social media is an increasingly important issue, but web-scale data hinders experts' ability to assess and correct much of the inaccurate content, or "fake news," present in these platforms. This paper develops a method for automating fake news detection on Twitter by lear...
The reason fake news spreads so well is it surprises people more. Those who retweeted the stories showed fear, disgust and surprise in replies and found the stories more novel. The goal of the study is to analyze why fake news spreads to help eventually curtail the practice, as previous evi...
Anand, R., Sakkari, D.S. (2022). Classification of Fake News on Twitter by Using Naïve Bayes Classifier. In: Ranganathan, G., Fernando, X., Shi, F., El Allioui, Y. (eds) Soft Computing for Security Applications . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1397. Springer,...
X (Twitter) Misinformation is a big issue on social media, and Twitter is no exception. Luckily, you can take things into your own hands. ByElectra Nanou Jul 9, 2021 Twitter Is Working on Three New Misinformation Labels X (Twitter) ...