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The term “fake news” gained international popularity as a result of the 2016 US presidential election campaign. It is related to the practice of spreading false and/or misleading information in order to influence popular opinion. This practice is known as disinformation. It is one of the main weapons used in information warfare, which is listed as an emerging cybersecurity threat. In this paper, we explore “fake news” as a disinformation tool. We survey previous efforts in defining and automating the detection process of “fake news”. We establish a new fluid definition of “fake news” in terms of relative bias and factual accuracy. We devise a novel framework for fake news detection, based on our proposed definition and using a machine learning model.
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Ibrishimova, M.D., Li, K.F. (2020). A Machine Learning Approach to Fake News Detection Using Knowledge Verification and Natural Language Processing. In: Barolli, L., Nishino, H., Miwa, H. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1035. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29035-1_22
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