Fake news detection on social media: A data mining perspective

K Shu, A Sliva, S Wang, J Tang, H Liu - ACM SIGKDD explorations …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost,
easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume
news from social media. On the other hand, it enables the wide spread of\fake news", ie, low
quality news with intentionally false information. The extensive spread of fake news has the
potential for extremely negative impacts on individuals and society. Therefore, fake news
detection on social media has recently become an emerging research that is attracting …