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Modeling Real And Fake News Sharing In Social Networks, Abishai Joy
Modeling Real And Fake News Sharing In Social Networks, Abishai Joy
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Online media is changing the traditional news industry and diminishing the role of journalists, newspapers, and even news channels. This in turn is enhancing the ability of fake news to influence public opinion on important topics. The threat of fake news is quite imminent, as it allows malicious users to share their agenda with a larger audience. Major social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, etc., are making it easy to spread fake news due to the minimal moderation/ fact-checking on these platforms.
This work aims at predicting fake and real news sharing in social media. Specifically, we employ a multi-level …