Fake news research: Theories, detection strategies, and open problems

Reza Zafarani, Xinyi Zhou, Kai Shu, Huan Liu

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

49 Scopus citations

Abstract

Fake news has become a global phenomenon due its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The goal of this tutorial is to (1) clearly introduce the concept and characteristics of fake news and how it can be formally differentiated from other similar concepts such as mis-/dis-information, satire news, rumors, among others, which helps deepen the understanding of fake news; (2) provide a comprehensive review of fundamental theories across disciplines and illustrate how they can be used to conduct interdisciplinary fake news research, facilitating a concerted effort of experts in computer and information science, political science, journalism, social science, psychology and economics. Such concerted efforts can result in highly efficient and explainable fake news detection; (3) systematically present fake news detection strategies from four perspectives (i.e., knowledge, style, propagation, and credibility) and the ways that each perspective utilizes techniques developed in data/graph mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval; and (4) detail open issues within current fake news studies to reveal great potential research opportunities, hoping to attract researchers within a broader area to work on fake news detection and further facilitate its development. The tutorial aims to promote a fair, healthy and safe online information and news dissemination ecosystem, hoping to attract more researchers, engineers and students with various interests to fake news research. Few prerequisite are required for KDD participants to attend.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKDD 2019 - Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages3207-3208
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450362016
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 25 2019
Event25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2019 - Anchorage, United States
Duration: Aug 4 2019Aug 8 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnchorage
Period8/4/198/8/19

Keywords

  • Disinformation
  • Fake news
  • Fake news detection
  • False news
  • Misinformation
  • News verification
  • Social media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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