Detect rumors in microblog posts using propagation structure via kernel learning

• Main Authors: MA, Jing, GAO, Wei, WONG, Kam-Fai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4563; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5566/viewcontent/P17_1066.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How fake news goes viral via social media? How does its propagation pattern differ from real stories? In this paper, we attempt to address the problem of identifying rumors, i.e., fake information, out of microblog posts based on their propagation structure. We firstly model microblog posts diffusio...