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An Analysis Of People’S Reasoning For Sharing Real And Fake News, Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
An Analysis Of People’S Reasoning For Sharing Real And Fake News, Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
The problem of the increase in the volume of fake news and its widespread over social media has gained massive attention as most of the population seeks social media for daily news diet. Humans are equally responsible for the surge of fake news spread. Thus, it is imperative to understand people’s behavior when they decide to share real and fake news items on social media. In an attempt to do so, we performed an analysis on data collected through a survey where participants (n= 363) were asked whether they were willing to share the given news item on their social …
Bullynet: Unmasking Cyberbullies On Social Networks, Aparna Sankaran
Bullynet: Unmasking Cyberbullies On Social Networks, Aparna Sankaran
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Social media has changed the way people communicate with each other, and consecutively affected people's ability to empathize in both positive and negative ways. One of the most harmful consequences of social media is the rise of cyberbullying, which tends to be more sinister than traditional bullying given that online records typically live on the internet for quite a long time and are hard to control. In this thesis, we present a three-phase algorithm, called BullyNet, for detecting cyberbullies on Twitter social network. We exploit bullying tendencies by proposing a robust method for constructing a cyberbullying signed network. BullyNet analyzes …