Method and Apparatus for Collecting, Detecting and Visualizing Fake News

摘要

Detecting fake news involves receiving a plurality of allegedly real news stories and allegedly fake news stories from one or more websites, receiving a plurality of user posts to a social media platform relating to the plurality of allegedly real news stories and allegedly fake news stories;receiving a plurality of user engagements related to the plurality of user posts, receiving user profile information, and social media network information, for users creating the plurality of user posts to the social media platform, and users participating in the engagements related to the plurality of user posts, and classifying each of the received plurality of allegedly real news stories and allegedly fake news stories as one of a real news story and a fake news story based on the analyzed content and analyzed social media context.