Detection of fake news on Twitter is challenging as the amount of resources is limited; less datasets are available, and also a large amount of data is generated by these social networking sites. It is very difficult to predict if the data is fake or not even after having knowledge in the...
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...
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. "There's been a lot of fake news so I just wanted to give you the facts. Ye...
Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election The dynamics and influence of fake news on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election remains to be clarified. Here, we use a dataset of 171 million tweets in the five months preceding the election day to identify...
A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.
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...
Twitter, along with Facebook and Google, is also exploring ways to combat fake news, including “trust indicators” that enable users to vet the veracity of the content they host. Twitter also said that it would further collaborate with experts on developing ...
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...
More information:N. Grinberg el al., "Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election,"Science(2019).science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aau2706 "The misinformation machine,"Science(2019).science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aaw1315 ...
on twitter. “just like how the term ‘fake news’ was re-appropriated to use against the msm, this button, too, would be used relentlessly by trolls,” buzzfeed reporter charlie warzel tweeted . trevor trimm, the executive director of the freedom of the press foundation, added :“i‘m ...