[ACM Press the 20th international conference - Hyderabad, India (2011.03.28-2011.04.01)] Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web - WWW '11 - Information credibility on twitter
โ Scribed by Castillo, Carlos; Mendoza, Marcelo; Poblete, Barbara
- Book ID
- 115473997
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 683 KB
- Volume
- 0
- Category
- Article
- ISBN
- 1450306322
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โฆ Synopsis
We analyze the information credibility of news propagated through Twitter, a popular microblogging service. Previous research has shown that most of the messages posted on Twitter are truthful, but the service is also used to spread misinformation and false rumors, often unintentionally.On this paper we focus on automatic methods for assessing the credibility of a given set of tweets. Specifically, we analyze microblog postings related to "trending" topics, and classify them as credible or not credible, based on features extracted from them. We use features from users' posting and re-posting ("re-tweeting") behavior, from the text of the posts, and from citations to external sources.We evaluate our methods using a significant number of human assessments about the credibility of items on a recent sample of Twitter postings. Our results shows that there are measurable differences in the way messages propagate, that can be used to classify them automatically as credible or not credible, with precision and recall in the range of 70% to 80%.
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