Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories

J Compton, S van der Linden, J Cook… - Social and Personality …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although there has been unprecedented attention to inoculation theory in recent years, the
potential of this research has yet to be reached. Inoculation theory explains how immunity to …

Fake news detection: A survey of graph neural network methods

HT Phan, NT Nguyen, D Hwang - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of various social networks has generated vast volumes of data. Efficient
methods for capturing, distinguishing, and filtering real and fake news are becoming …

The spread of true and false news online

S Vosoughi, D Roy, S Aral - science, 2018 - science.org
We investigated the differential diffusion of all of the verified true and false news stories
distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. The data comprise~ 126,000 stories tweeted by~ 3 …

Third person effects of fake news: Fake news regulation and media literacy interventions

SM Jang, JK Kim - Computers in human behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Although the actual effect of fake news online on voters' decisions is still unknown, concerns
over the perceived effect of fake news online have prevailed in the US and other countries …

The web of false information: Rumors, fake news, hoaxes, clickbait, and various other shenanigans

S Zannettou, M Sirivianos, J Blackburn… - Journal of Data and …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
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 …

The paradox of participation versus misinformation: Social media, political engagement, and the spread of misinformation

S Valenzuela, D Halpern, JE Katz, JP Miranda - Digital Journalism, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The mechanisms by which users of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter spread
misinformation are not well understood. In this study, we argue that the effects of …

Fake news identification on twitter with hybrid cnn and rnn models

O Ajao, D Bhowmik, S Zargari - … of the 9th international conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The problem associated with the propagation of fake news continues to grow at an alarming
scale. This trend has generated much interest from politics to academia and industry alike …

Separating facts from fiction: Linguistic models to classify suspicious and trusted news posts on twitter

S Volkova, K Shaffer, JY Jang… - Proceedings of the 55th …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
Pew research polls report 62 percent of US adults get news on social media (Gottfried and
Shearer, 2016). In a December poll, 64 percent of US adults said that “made-up news” has …

Disinformation on the web: Impact, characteristics, and detection of wikipedia hoaxes

S Kumar, R West, J Leskovec - … of the 25th international conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Wikipedia is a major source of information for many people. However, false information on
Wikipedia raises concerns about its credibility. One way in which false information may be …

[HTML][HTML] Fake news outbreak 2021: Can we stop the viral spread?

T Khan, A Michalas, A Akhunzada - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …