Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation

WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 745-750

  Shao, Chengcheng ^a   Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca ^b   Flammini, Alessandro ^b,c   Menczer, Filippo ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fact checking; fake news; hoaxes; misinformation; rumor tracking; twitter

Indexed keywords

FAKE DETECTION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FACT CHECKING; FAKE NEWS; HIGH QUALITY; HOAX; INACCURATE INFORMATION; INFORMATION CASCADES; MISINFORMATION; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; RUMOR TRACKING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85115783023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2872518.2890098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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