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Tensor Factorization with Label Information for Fake News Detection
The buzz over the so-called "fake news" has created concerns about a
degenerated media environment and led to the need for technological solutions.
As the detection of fake news is increasingly considered a technological
problem, it has attracted considerable research. Most of these studies
primarily focus on utilizing information extracted from textual news content.
In contrast, we focus on detecting fake news solely based on structural
information of social networks. We suggest that the underlying network
connections of users that share fake news are discriminative enough to support
the detection of fake news. Thereupon, we model each post as a network of
friendship interactions and represent a collection of posts as a
multidimensional tensor. Taking into account the available labeled data, we
propose a tensor factorization method which associates the class labels of data
samples with their latent representations. Specifically, we combine a
classification error term with the standard factorization in a unified
optimization process. Results on real-world datasets demonstrate that our
proposed method is competitive against state-of-the-art methods by implementing
an arguably simpler approach.Comment: Presented at the Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure
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