Asma Sormeily;Sajjad Dadkhah;Xichen Zhang;Ali A. Ghorbani
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Abstract
Alongside social media platforms’ rise in popularity, fake news circulation has increased, highlighting the need for more practical methods to detect this phenomenon. The constantly evolving format of fake news makes it difficult for approaches that rely on a single modality of news to generalize the different types of false news. Furthermore, earlier approaches require extensive propagation data to determine the veracity of news, which can be challenging to collect in the early stages of news dissemination. Thus, we propose a multimodal early fake news detection approach that leverages latent insights into both news content and propagation knowledge. We design a multimodule architecture using graph neural networks (GNNs) to represent edge-enhanced and node-enhanced propagation graphs and bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERTs) to generate contextualized representations of news content. Our approach tackles the challenge of early detection in a more realistic scenario, accessing early propagation data in a single social media post and short-length news content. Moreover, we conduct comprehensive studies on user characteristics using statistical techniques to identify attributes with strong discriminative capability for identifying false news. We also analyze temporal and structural properties of fake news propagation graphs to demonstrate distinguishable patterns of false and real news behavior. Our model outperforms several state-of-the-art methods, achieving an impressive F1-score of 99% and 96% on two public datasets. The individual contribution of various components in our model to the final performance is also measured, which can be insightful for future research on multimodal false news detection.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems focuses on such topics as modeling, simulation, analysis and understanding of social systems from the quantitative and/or computational perspective. "Systems" include man-man, man-machine and machine-machine organizations and adversarial situations as well as social media structures and their dynamics. More specifically, the proposed transactions publishes articles on modeling the dynamics of social systems, methodologies for incorporating and representing socio-cultural and behavioral aspects in computational modeling, analysis of social system behavior and structure, and paradigms for social systems modeling and simulation. The journal also features articles on social network dynamics, social intelligence and cognition, social systems design and architectures, socio-cultural modeling and representation, and computational behavior modeling, and their applications.