Evaluating vulnerability to fake news in social networks: A community health assessment model

• Main Authors: RATH, Bhavtosh, GAO, Wei, SRIVASTAVA, Jaideep
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Social media; fake news; community health; detection algorithms; Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4556; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5559/viewcontent/3341161.3342920.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Understanding the spread of false information in social networks has gained a lot of recent attention. In this paper, we explore the role community structures play in determining how people get exposed to fake news. Inspired by approaches in epidemiology, we propose a novel Community Health Assessme...