Challenge: Existing methods for rumor detection are limited to the strict relation of user responses or oversimplify the conversation structure.
Approach: They propose a method that reinforces interaction of user opinions while reducing negative impact imposed by irrelevant posts.
Outcome: The proposed method improves performance on three Twitter datasets and can detect rumors at early stages.

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