Predicting the Influence of Fake and Real News Spreaders (Student Abstract)

Amy Zhang, Aaron Brookhouse, Daniel Hammer, Francesca Spezzano, Liljana Babinkostova

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Abstract

We study the problem of predicting the influence of a user in spreading fake (or real) news on social media. We propose a new model to address this problem which takes into account both user and tweet characteristics. We show that our model achieves an F1 score of 0.853, resp. 0.931, at predicting the influence of fake, resp. real, news spreaders, and outperforms existing baselines. We also investigate important features at predicting the influence of real vs. fake news spreaders.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIAAI-22, EAAI-22, AAAI-22 Special Programs and Special Track, Student Papers and Demonstrations
Pages13107-13108
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)1577358767, 9781577358763
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Jun 2022
Event36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 22 Feb 20221 Mar 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022
Volume36

Conference

Conference36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period22/02/221/03/22

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