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title = "Tackling Fake News Detection by Continually Improving Social Context Representations using Graph Neural Networks",
author = "Mehta, Nikhil and
Pacheco, Maria Leonor and
Goldwasser, Dan",
editor = "Muresan, Smaranda and
Nakov, Preslav and
Villavicencio, Aline",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.97",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.97",
pages = "1363--1380",
abstract = "Easy access, variety of content, and fast widespread interactions are some of the reasons making social media increasingly popular. However, this rise has also enabled the propagation of fake news, text published by news sources with an intent to spread misinformation and sway beliefs. Detecting it is an important and challenging problem to prevent large scale misinformation and maintain a healthy society. We view fake news detection as reasoning over the relations between sources, articles they publish, and engaging users on social media in a graph framework. After embedding this information, we formulate inference operators which augment the graph edges by revealing unobserved interactions between its elements, such as similarity between documents{'} contents and users{'} engagement patterns. Our experiments over two challenging fake news detection tasks show that using inference operators leads to a better understanding of the social media framework enabling fake news spread, resulting in improved performance.",
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%A Mehta, Nikhil
%A Pacheco, Maria Leonor
%A Goldwasser, Dan
%Y Muresan, Smaranda
%Y Nakov, Preslav
%Y Villavicencio, Aline
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%D 2022
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dublin, Ireland
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Markdown (Informal)
[Tackling Fake News Detection by Continually Improving Social Context Representations using Graph Neural Networks](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.97) (Mehta et al., ACL 2022)
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