Title
Are you influenced?: modeling the diffusion of fake news in social media
Abstract
ABSTRACTWe propose an approach inspired by the diffusion of innovations theory to model and characterize fake news sharing in social media through the lens of the different levels of influential factors (users, networks, and news). We address the problem of predicting fake news sharing as a classification task and demonstrate the potentials of the proposed features by achieving an AUROC of 0.97 and an average precision of 0.88, consistently outperforming baseline models with a higher margin (about 30% of AUROC). Also, we show that news-based features are the most effective at predicting real and fake news sharing, followed by the user- and network-based features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3487351.3488345
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abishai Joy100.34
Anu Shrestha201.69
Francesca Spezzano38019.08