PREDICTION OF SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS AS TRUSTED NEWS OR AS TYPES OF SUSPICIOUS NEWS

Patent ID: 9428 | Patent Number 11,074,500 | Status: Granted

Abstract

We build predictive models to classify thousands of news posts as suspicious or verified, and predict four subtypes of suspicious news on twitter - satire, hoaxes, clickbait and propaganda. We show that neural network models trained on tweet content and social network interactions outperform lexical models. Unlike previous work on deception detection, we find that adding syntax and grammar features to our models does not improve performance. Incorporating linguistic features improves classification results, however, social interaction features are most informative for finer-grained separation between four types of suspicious news posts.

Application Number

15/886,079

Inventors

Volkova,Svitlana

Market Sector

Data Sciences