Rumour Detection and Analysis on Twitter

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01712v1
• Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:20:37 GMT
• Title: Rumour Detection and Analysis on Twitter
• Authors: Yaohou Fan
• Abstract summary: In recent years people have become increasingly reliant on social media to read news and get information. Some social media users post unsubstantiated information to gain attention. Rumour detection is receiving a growing amount of attention because of the pandemic of the New Coronavirus.
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• Abstract: In recent years people have become increasingly reliant on social media to read news and get information, and some social media users post unsubstantiated information to gain attention. Such information is known as rumours. Nowadays, rumour detection is receiving a growing amount of attention because of the pandemic of the New Coronavirus, which has led to a large number of rumours being spread. In this paper, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) system is built to predict rumours. The best model is applied to the COVID-19 tweets to conduct exploratory data analysis. The contribution of this study is twofold: (1) to compare rumours and facts using state-of-the-art natural language processing models in two dimensions: language structure and propagation route. (2) An analysis of how rumours differ from facts in terms of their lexical use and the emotions they imply. This study shows that linguistic structure is a better feature to distinguish rumours from facts compared to the propagation path. In addition, rumour tweets contain more vocabulary related to politics and negative emotions.

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