Misleading online content: Recognizing clickbait as "false news"

WMDD 2015 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection, co-located with ICMI 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 15-19

  Chen, Yimin ^a   Conroy, Niall J ^a   Rubin, Victoria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated deception detection; Automation; Clickbait; Fake news; News verification; Reader behavior

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION;

AUTOMATED DECEPTION DETECTIONS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLICKBAIT; FAKE NEWS; HYBRID APPROACH; ON-LINE CONTENTS; POTENTIAL METHODS; READER BEHAVIOR;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84960932098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2823465.2823467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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