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An Emotional Analysis of False Information in Social Media and News Articles (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: The study compared the emotional language of real news with four kinds of false news—propaganda, hoaxes, clickbait, and satire. Each kind showed its own emotional pattern, and feeding those emotions into a text-detecting network helped spot fake news.

Abstract

Fake news is risky since it has been created to manipulate the readers' opinions and beliefs. In this work, we compared the language of false news to the real one of real news from an emotional perspective, considering a set of false information types (propaganda, hoax, clickbait, and satire) from social media and online news articles sources. Our experiments showed that false information has different emotional patterns in each of its types, and emotions play a key role in deceiving the reader. Based on that, we proposed a LSTM neural network model that is emotionally-infused to detect false news.

Bilal Ghanem, Paolo Rosso, Francisco Rangel
arXiv:1908.09951 · cs.CL, cs.IR, cs.SI · submitted Aug 26, 2019
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