Rumor gauge: Predicting the veracity of rumors on twitter

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Vosoughi, Soroush ^a   Mohsenvand, Mostafa ‘Neo’ ^a   Roy, Deb ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fake news; Propagation; Rumor; Twitter; Veracity prediction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRADING; EMERGENCY SERVICES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WAVE PROPAGATION;

AUTOMATED VERIFICATION; FAKE NEWS; LINGUISTIC STYLES; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS; RUMOR; SALIENT FEATURES; TWITTER; VERIFICATION ALGORITHMS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85026522971     PISSN: 15564681     EISSN: 1556472X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/3070644     Document Type: Article

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