An overview of online fake news: Characterization, detection, and discussion

X Zhang, AA Ghorbani - Information Processing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the recent years, the growth of online social media has greatly facilitated the way
people communicate with each other. Users of online social media share information …

A review on social spam detection: Challenges, open issues, and future directions

S Rao, AK Verma, T Bhatia - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Online Social Networks are perpetually evolving and used in plenteous
applications such as content sharing, chatting, making friends/followers, customer …

Attractiveness, trustworthiness and expertise–social influencers' winning formula?

KP Wiedmann, W Von Mettenheim - Journal of Product & Brand …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The importance of influencer marketing is constantly growing. However, little
empirical research has examined influencers' success requirements. This study aims to fill …

Assessing the risks of 'infodemics' in response to COVID-19 epidemics

R Gallotti, F Valle, N Castaldo, P Sacco… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
During COVID-19, governments and the public are fighting not only a pandemic but also a
co-evolving infodemic—the rapid and far-reaching spread of information of questionable …

A survey of Twitter research: Data model, graph structure, sentiment analysis and attacks

D Antonakaki, P Fragopoulou, S Ioannidis - Expert systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and
Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …

The role of digital influencers in brand recommendation: Examining their impact on engagement, expected value and purchase intention

D Jiménez-Castillo, R Sánchez-Fernández - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the growing interest in digital influencers as a brand communication tool in recent
years, much remains to be explored to understand how they can build a bond with their …

GCAN: Graph-aware co-attention networks for explainable fake news detection on social media

YJ Lu, CT Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11648, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper solves the fake news detection problem under a more realistic scenario on social
media. Given the source short-text tweet and the corresponding sequence of retweet users …

Political polarization on the digital sphere: A cross-platform, over-time analysis of interactional, positional, and affective polarization on social media

M Yarchi, C Baden, N Kligler-Vilenchik - Political Communication, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Political polarization on the digital sphere poses a real challenge to many democracies
around the world. Although the issue has received some scholarly attention, there is a need …

Reliable crowdsourcing and deep locality-preserving learning for expression recognition in the wild

S Li, W Deng, JP Du - … of the IEEE conference on computer …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Past research on facial expressions have used relatively limited datasets, which makes it
unclear whether current methods can be employed in real world. In this paper, we present a …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing public opinion towards COVID-19 vaccines with Twitter data in the United States: spatiotemporal perspective

T Hu, S Wang, W Luo, M Zhang, X Huang, Y Yan… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a large, initially uncontrollable, public
health crisis both in the United States and across the world, with experts looking to vaccines …