TY - JOUR
T1 - FakeNewsTracker
T2 - a tool for fake news collection, detection, and visualization
AU - Shu, Kai
AU - Mahudeswaran, Deepak
AU - Liu, Huan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This material is based upon work supported by, or in part by, the ONR Grant N00014-16-1-2257, ARO (W911NF-15-1-0328) and ONR N000141310835.
Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by, or in part by, the ONR Grant N00014-16-1-2257, ARO (W911NF-15-1-0328) and ONR N000141310835.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Nowadays social media is widely used as the source of information because of its low cost, easy to access nature. However, consuming news from social media is a double-edged sword because of the wide propagation of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information. Fake news is a serious problem because it has negative impacts on individuals as well as society large. In the social media the information is spread fast and hence detection mechanism should be able to predict news fast enough to stop the dissemination of fake news. Therefore, detecting fake news on social media is an extremely important and also a technically challenging problem. In this paper, we present FakeNewsTracker, a system for fake news understanding and detection. As we will show, FakeNewsTracker can automatically collect data for news pieces and social context, which benefits further research of understanding and predicting fake news with effective visualization techniques.
AB - Nowadays social media is widely used as the source of information because of its low cost, easy to access nature. However, consuming news from social media is a double-edged sword because of the wide propagation of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information. Fake news is a serious problem because it has negative impacts on individuals as well as society large. In the social media the information is spread fast and hence detection mechanism should be able to predict news fast enough to stop the dissemination of fake news. Therefore, detecting fake news on social media is an extremely important and also a technically challenging problem. In this paper, we present FakeNewsTracker, a system for fake news understanding and detection. As we will show, FakeNewsTracker can automatically collect data for news pieces and social context, which benefits further research of understanding and predicting fake news with effective visualization techniques.
KW - Fake news detection
KW - Neural networks
KW - Twitter visualization
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U2 - 10.1007/s10588-018-09280-3
DO - 10.1007/s10588-018-09280-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85063376271
SN - 1381-298X
VL - 25
SP - 60
EP - 71
JO - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
JF - Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
IS - 1
ER -