Early Detection of Fake News with Multi-source Weak Social Supervision

• Published in: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases Vol. 12459; pp. 650 - 666
• Main Authors: Shu, Kai, Zheng, Guoqing, Li, Yichuan, Mukherjee, Subhabrata, Awadallah, Ahmed Hassan, Ruston, Scott, Liu, Huan
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2021; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Fake news; Meta learning; Weak social supervision

Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news which cause confusion and chaos if not detected in a timely manner. Given the rapidly evolving nature of...