Exposing and Explaining Fake News On-the-Fly

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06668v2
• Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:07:46 GMT
• Title: Exposing and Explaining Fake News On-the-Fly
• Authors: Francisco de Arriba-Pérez, Silvia García-Méndez, Fátima Leal, Benedita Malheiro, Juan Carlos Burguillo,
• Abstract summary: This work contributes with an explainable and online classification method to recognize fake news in real-time. The proposed method combines both unsupervised and supervised Machine Learning approaches with online created lexica. The performance of the proposed solution has been validated with real data sets from Twitter and the results attain 80 % accuracy and macro F-measure.
• Score: 4.278181795494584
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to manipulation. This work contributes with an explainable and online classification method to recognize fake news in real-time. The proposed method combines both unsupervised and supervised Machine Learning approaches with online created lexica. The profiling is built using creator-, content- and context-based features using Natural Language Processing techniques. The explainable classification mechanism displays in a dashboard the features selected for classification and the prediction confidence. The performance of the proposed solution has been validated with real data sets from Twitter and the results attain 80 % accuracy and macro F-measure. This proposal is the first to jointly provide data stream processing, profiling, classification and explainability. Ultimately, the proposed early detection, isolation and explanation of fake news contribute to increase the quality and trustworthiness of social media contents.

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