Challenge: Existing methods for detecting fake news use shared features as complementarity features without selection.
Approach: They propose a sifted multi-task learning method with a selected sharing layer for fake news detection.
Outcome: The proposed method boosts the F1-score by more than 0.87%, 1.31% on two public and widely used competition datasets.

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