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Identifying Fake News and Fake Users on Twitter
Author(s) -
Costel-Sergiu Atodiresei,
Alexandru Tănăselea,
Adrian Iftene
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
procedia computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 76
ISSN - 1877-0509
DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2018.07.279
Subject(s) - fake news , computer science , internet privacy , social media , product (mathematics) , social network (sociolinguistics) , world wide web , sentiment analysis , computer security , artificial intelligence , geometry , mathematics
In the last years big social networks like Facebook or Twitter admit that on their networks are fake and duplicate accounts, fake news and fake likes. With these accounts, their creators can distribute false information, support or attack an idea, a product, or an election candidate, influencing real network users in making a decision. In this paper, we present our system build with the aim of identifying fake users and fake news in the Twitter social network.

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