Spread of misinformation on social media: What contributes to it and how to combat it

S Chen, L Xiao, A Kumar - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

The application of blockchain in social media: a systematic literature review

MA Hisseine, D Chen, X Yang - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Social media has transformed the mode of communication globally by providing an
extensive system for exchanging ideas, initiating business contracts, and proposing new …

An incentive-aware blockchain-based solution for internet of fake media things

Q Chen, G Srivastava, RM Parizi, M Aloqaily… - Information Processing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The concept of Fake Media or Internet of Fake Media Things (IoFMT) has emerged
in different domains of digital society such as politics, news, and social media. Due to the …

A survey for the application of blockchain technology in the media

L Liu, W Zhang, C Han - Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, the news industry, digital rights management, digital advertising, content
production and social media are facing inevitable problems, such as fake news spreading …

Blockchain-based framework for reducing fake or vicious news spread on social media/messaging platforms

S Dhall, AD Dwivedi, SK Pal, G Srivastava - Transactions on Asian and …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
With social media becoming the most frequently used mode of modern-day communications,
the propagation of fake or vicious news through such modes of communication has emerged …

Tracing the source of fake news using a scalable blockchain distributed network

AD Dwivedi, R Singh, S Dhall… - 2020 IEEE 17th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the news industry, as well as in social media, fake news detection and identification of
news sources has become a central topic of discussion. In the era of digitization, anyone can …

Online social deception and its countermeasures: A survey

Z Guo, JH Cho, R Chen, S Sengupta, M Hong… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We are living in an era when online communication over social network services (SNSs)
have become an indispensable part of people's everyday lives. As a consequence, online …

Blockchain-based platform to fight disinformation using crowd wisdom and artificial intelligence

CN Buțincu, A Alexandrescu - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Disinformation and fake news are used by multiple actors to manipulate and influence the
public with the purpose of gaining a series of advantages. This paper describes a promising …

Research on improvement of DPoS consensus mechanism in collaborative governance of network public opinion

Y Chen, F Liu - Peer-to-peer Networking and Applications, 2022 - Springer
With the increasingly complex social situation, the problems of traditional online public
opinion governance are increasingly serious. Especially the problem of transmission …

Detecting fake news on COVID-19 vaccine from YouTube videos using advanced machine learning approaches

WMS Yafooz, AHM Emara, M Lahby - Combating Fake News with …, 2022 - Springer
Fake news is considered a massive threat to many internet users, with the heavy usage of
social media networks. Many news agencies develop their platforms to publish and share …