With the ubiquity of advanced web technologies and location-sensing hand held devices,
citizens regardless of their knowledge or expertise, are able to produce spatial information …

Social Networks' omnipresence and ease of use has revolutionized the generation and
distribution of information in today's world. However, easy access to information does not …

The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for
timely identification and containment of fake news and mitigation of its widespread impact on …

Microblogs have become popular media for news propagation in recent years. Meanwhile,
numerous rumors and fake news also bloom and spread wildly on the open social media …

How fake news goes viral via social media? How does its propagation pattern differ from
real stories? In this paper, we attempt to address the problem of identifying rumors, ie, fake …

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored
ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information …

Microblog has been a popular media platform for reporting and propagating news. However,
fake news spreading on microblogs would severely jeopardize its public credibility. To …

Many previous techniques identify trending topics in social media, even topics that are not
pre-defined. We present a technique to identify trending rumors, which we define as topics …

This paper studies the problem of automatic detection of false rumors on Sina Weibo, the
popular Chinese microblogging social network. Traditional feature-based approaches …

Networked digital media present new challenges for people to locate information that they
can trust. At the same time, societal reliance on information that is available solely or …