Information credibility on twitter
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...Some work develops theoretical models of rumor diffusion [37, 38, 39, 40], or methods for rumor detection [41, 42, 43, 44], credibility evaluation [45] or interventions to curtail the spread of rumors [46, 47, 48]....
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...to infer the credibility and reliability for each user using various aspects of user demographics, such as registration age, number of followers/followees, number of tweets the user has authored, etc [11]. Group level user features capture overall characteristics of groups of users related to the news [99]. The assumption is that the spreaders of fake news 10https://www.wired.com/2016/12/photos-fuel-s...
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...h as supporting, denying, etc [37]. Topic features can be extracted using topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) [49]. Credibility features for posts assess the degree of reliability [11]. Group level features aim to aggregate the feature values for all relevant posts for specic news articles by using \wisdom of crowds". For example, the average credibility scores are used to ev...
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...We construct two microblog datasets using Twitter (www. twitter.com) and Sina Weibo (weibo.com)....
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...To balance the two classes, we further added some non-rumor events from two public datasets [Castillo et al., 2011; Kwon et al., 2013]....
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...The simplest RNN model, tanh-RNN, achieves 82.7% accuracy on Twitter and 87.3% on Weibo....
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...For example, on August 25th of 2015, a rumor about “shootouts and kidnappings by drug gangs happening near schools in Veracruz” spread through Twitter and Facebook1....
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...We refine the keywords by adding, deleting or replacing words manually, and iteratively until the composed queries can have reasonably precise Twitter search results....
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...Many studies have thus analysed the credibility of user-generated contents and the cognitive process involved in the decision to spread online information on social and political events (Abbasi and Liu, 2013; Castillo et al., 2011; Lupia, 2013; Swire et al., 2017)....
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...In a recent user study, it was found that providing information to users about the estimated credibility of online content was very useful and valuable to them [30]....
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...Twitter is currently being used as a tool for political propaganda [20]....
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...Users also may change their perception of credibility of a blog posting depending on the (supposed) gender of the author [3]....
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...In this light the results of the experiment described in [29] are not surprising....
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