Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and news gathering, its
unmoderated nature often leads to the emergence and spread of rumours, ie, items of …

Rumour stance classification, defined as classifying the stance of specific social media posts
into one of supporting, denying, querying or commenting on an earlier post, is becoming of …

Misinformation has become a common part of our digital media environments and it is
compromising the ability of our societies to form informed opinions. It generates …

Online social networks have become the hotbeds of many rumors as information can
propagate much faster than ever. In order to detect the few but potentially harmful rumors to …

The massive, uncontrolled, and oftentimes systematic spread of inaccurate and misleading
information on the Web and social media poses a major risk to society. Digital …

Providing balanced and good quality news articles to readers is an important challenge in
news recommendation. Often, readers tend to select and read articles which confirm their …

Inspired by a European project, PHEME, that requires the close analysis of Twitter-based
conversations in order to look at the spread of rumors via social media, this article has two …

Over the last decade, we have seen that social media services have been widely adopted to
communicate with friends or family members, and to generate and consume information. It is …

This paper describes ongoing work on the creation of a multilingual rumour dataset on
football transfer news, FTR-18. Transfer rumours are continuously published by sports …

Providing balanced and good quality news articles to readers is an important challenge in
news recommendation. Often, readers tend to select and read articles which confirm their …