Rumor Propagation: A State-of-the-art Survey of Current Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

Rumor propagation is an alarming problem that creates a lot of predicament and has significant impact on people’s lives. Earlier rumor could only be spread by the word of the mouth however in the current Web age, people are using electronics much more than they used to before, thereby resulting into lot of social interaction on the Web and hence spread of fake news is at its apex. This survey paper is written while keeping in mind the problem of fake news propagation and various approaches given to limit the spread up to a considerable extent. Fake news propagation is a new field of research and constant work is going on this field. Various models already given attempt to recognize the pattern of the news spread, correlates the rumor propagation with nature inspired phenomena. In this review paper, we also give the comparison between these models and their variants, this study leads us to see which areas are still challenging and what are the future prospects of rumor propagation.