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Characterizing Multi-Domain False News and Underlying User Effects on Chinese Weibo
Qiang Sheng, Juan Cao, H. Russell Bernard +3
False news that spreads on social media has proliferated over the past years and has led to multi-aspect threats in the real world. While there are studies of false news on specifi…
A Survey on Echo Chambers on Social Media: Description, Detection and Mitigation
Faisal Alatawi, Lu Cheng, Anique Tahir +4
Echo chambers on social media are a significant problem that can elicit a number of negative consequences, most recently affecting the response to COVID-19. Echo chambers promote c…
Mechanisms and Attributes of Echo Chambers in Social Media
Bohan Jiang, Mansooreh Karami, Lu Cheng +2
Echo chambers may exclude social media users from being exposed to other opinions, therefore, can cause rampant negative effects. Among abundant evidence are the 2016 and 2020 US p…
MM-COVID: A Multilingual and Multimodal Data Repository for Combating COVID-19 Disinformation
Yichuan Li, Bohan Jiang, Kai Shu +1
The COVID-19 epidemic is considered as the global health crisis of the whole society and the greatest challenge mankind faced since World War Two. Unfortunately, the fake news abou…
Disinformation in the Online Information Ecosystem: Detection, Mitigation and Challenges
Amrita Bhattacharjee, Kai Shu, Min Gao +1
With the rapid increase in access to internet and the subsequent growth in the population of online social media users, the quality of information posted, disseminated and consumed…
Unsupervised Cyberbullying Detection via Time-Informed Gaussian Mixture Model
Lu Cheng, Kai Shu, Siqi Wu +3
Social media is a vital means for information-sharing due to its easy access, low cost, and fast dissemination characteristics. However, increases in social media usage have corres…
Combating Disinformation in a Social Media Age
Kai Shu, Amrita Bhattacharjee, Faisal Alatawi +4
The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and…
Challenges in Combating COVID-19 Infodemic -- Data, Tools, and Ethics
Kaize Ding, Kai Shu, Yichuan Li +2
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues its global devastation, numerous accompanying challenges emerge. One important challenge we face is to efficiently and effectively use recentl…
Social Science Guided Feature Engineering: A Novel Approach to Signed Link Analysis
Ghazaleh Beigi, Jiliang Tang, Huan Liu
Many real-world relations can be represented by signed networks with positive links (e.g., friendships and trust) and negative links (e.g., foes and distrust). Link prediction help…
Mining Disinformation and Fake News: Concepts, Methods, and Recent Advancements
Kai Shu, Suhang Wang, Dongwon Lee +1
In recent years, disinformation including fake news, has became a global phenomenon due to its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The wide spread of disinformation and…
Privacy-Aware Recommendation with Private-Attribute Protection using Adversarial Learning
Ghazaleh Beigi, Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Ruocheng Guo +3
Recommendation is one of the critical applications that helps users find information relevant to their interests. However, a malicious attacker can infer users' private information…
Detecting Fake News with Weak Social Supervision
Kai Shu, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Susan Dumais +1
Limited labeled data is becoming the largest bottleneck for supervised learning systems. This is especially the case for many real-world tasks where large scale annotated examples…
Fake News Detection on Social Media: A Data Mining Perspective
Kai Shu, Amy Sliva, Suhang Wang +2
Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost, easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume ne…
Predicting Online Protest Participation of Social Media Users
Suhas Ranganath, Fred Morstatter, Xia Hu +2
Social media has emerged to be a popular platform for people to express their viewpoints on political protests like the Arab Spring. Millions of people use social media to communic…