A Study of Tweet Veracity to Separate Rumours from Counter-Rumours

• Main Authors: Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Banerjee, Snehasish
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Information Quality; Counter-rumor
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87087; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44319
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Rumours are known to propagate easily through computer-mediated communication channels such as Twitter. Their outbreak is often followed by the spread of 'counter-rumours', which are messages that debunk rumours. The probability of a tweet to be a counter-rumour is referred to as 'twe...