Utilizing computational trust to identify rumor spreaders on Twitter

• Main Authors: RATH, Bhavtosh, GAO, Wei, MA, Jing, SRIVASTAVA, Jaideep
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Rumor detection; Computational trust; Representation learning; Recurrent neural networks; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4546; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5549/viewcontent/Rath2018_Article_UtilizingComputationalTrustToI.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Ubiquitous use of social media such as microblogging platforms opens unprecedented chances for false information to diffuse online. Facing the challenges in such a so-called “post-fact” era, it is very important for intelligent systems to not only check the veracity of information but also verify th...