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most citedThis Just In: Fake News Packs a Lot in Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar to Satire than Real News

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cs.CY2022

SciLander: Mapping the Scientific News Landscape

Maurício Gruppi, Panayiotis Smeros, Sibel Adalı +2

The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the spread of misinformation on social media and the Web as a whole. The phenomenon dubbed `infodemic' has taken the challenges of information vera…

cs.CY2022★ 2 cited

NELA-Local: A Dataset of U.S. Local News Articles for the Study of County-level News Ecosystems

Benjamin D. Horne, Maurício Gruppi, Kenneth Joseph +3

In this paper, we present a dataset of over 1.4M online news articles from 313 local U.S. news outlets published over 20 months (between April 4th, 2020 and December 31st, 2021). T…

cs.CY2021★ 23 cited

NELA-GT-2020: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adalı

In this paper, we present an updated version of the NELA-GT-2019 dataset, entitled NELA-GT-2020. NELA-GT-2020 contains nearly 1.8M news articles from 519 sources collected between…

cs.CY2020

NELA-GT-2019: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adalı

In this paper, we present an updated version of the NELA-GT-2018 dataset (Nørregaard, Horne, and Adalı 2019), entitled NELA-GT-2019. NELA-GT-2019 contains 1.12M news articles from…

cs.CY2019

Trustworthy Misinformation Mitigation with Soft Information Nudging

Benjamin D. Horne, Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adalı

Research in combating misinformation reports many negative results: facts may not change minds, especially if they come from sources that are not trusted. Individuals can disregard…

cs.CY2019

Rating Reliability and Bias in News Articles: Does AI Assistance Help Everyone?

Benjamin D. Horne, Dorit Nevo, John O'Donovan +2

With the spread of false and misleading information in current news, many algorithmic tools have been introduced with the aim of assessing bias and reliability in written content.…

cs.CY2019★ 38 cited

NELA-GT-2018: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

Jeppe Norregaard, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

In this paper, we present a dataset of 713k articles collected between 02/2018-11/2018. These articles are collected directly from 194 news and media outlets including mainstream,…

cs.CY2019★ 9 cited

Different Spirals of Sameness: A Study of Content Sharing in Mainstream and Alternative Media

Benjamin D. Horne, Jeppe Norregaard, Sibel Adali

In this paper, we analyze content sharing between news sources in the alternative and mainstream media using a dataset of 713K articles and 194 sources. We find that content sharin…

cs.CY2018★ 2 cited

An Exploration of Verbatim Content Republishing by News Producers

Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

In today's news ecosystem, news sources emerge frequently and can vary widely in intent. This intent can range from benign to malicious, with many tactics being used to achieve the…

cs.CY2018★ 2 cited

Sampling the News Producers: A Large News and Feature Data Set for the Study of the Complex Media Landscape

Benjamin D. Horne, William Dron, Sara Khedr +1

The complexity and diversity of today's media landscape provides many challenges for researchers studying news producers. These producers use many different strategies to get their…