“This is Fake! Shared it by Mistake”:Assessing the Intent of Fake News Spreaders
“This is Fake! Shared it by Mistake”:Assessing the Intent of Fake News Spreaders
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10.1145/3485447.3512264
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2022-02
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Xinyi Zhou;Kai Shu;V. Phoha;Huan Liu;R. Zafarani
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作者：
Xinyi Zhou;Kai Shu;V. Phoha;Huan Liu;R. Zafarani
个人可能会被假新闻误导，在不知情的情况下无意中传播它。这种现象经常被观察到，但尚未被研究过。我们这项工作的目的是评估假新闻传播者的意图。为了区分有意传播和无意传播，我们研究了无意传播的心理学解释。在此基础上，我们提出了一个影响图，用它来评估假新闻传播者的意图。我们的大量实验表明，评估的意图可以帮助显著区分有意和无意的假新闻传播者。此外，估计的意图可以显著改进当前检测假新闻的技术。据我们所知，这是第一个模拟个人在假新闻传播中的意图的工作。
Individuals can be misled by fake news and spread it unintentionally without knowing it is false. This phenomenon has been frequently observed but has not been investigated. Our aim in this work is to assess the intent of fake news spreaders. To distinguish between intentional versus unintentional spreading, we study the psychological explanations of unintentional spreading. With this foundation, we then propose an influence graph, using which we assess the intent of fake news spreaders. Our extensive experiments show that the assessed intent can help significantly differentiate between intentional and unintentional fake news spreaders. Furthermore, the estimated intent can significantly improve the current techniques that detect fake news. To our best knowledge, this is the first work to model individuals’ intent in fake news spreading.