Collecting a Large Scale Dataset for Classifying Fake News Tweets Using Weak Supervision

The problem of automatic detection of fake news in social media, e.g., on Twitter, has recently drawn some attention. Although, from a technical perspective, it can be regarded as a straight-forward, binary classification problem, the major challenge is the collection of large enough training corpor...

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Main Authors: Stefan Helmstetter, Heiko Paulheim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Future Internet
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/5/114