Disinformation on the web: Impact, characteristics, and detection of wikipedia hoaxes

25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 591-602

  Kumar, Srijan ^a   West, Robert ^b   Leskovec, Jure ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE;

AUTOMATED CLASSIFIERS; CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; EMBEDDEDNESS; PAGEVIEWS; REAL-WORLD; WIKIPEDIA;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 85039995356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2872427.2883085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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