Identifying and Understanding User Reactions to Deceptive and Trusted Social News Sources (P18-2)
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| Challenge: | a new study examines how users react to news sources with different levels of credibility . a recent study found that 59% of bitly-URLs on Twitter are shared without ever being read . |
| Approach: | They develop a model to classify user reactions into one of nine types . they also measure the speed and type of reaction for trusted and deceptive news sources . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model classifies user reactions into one of nine types, such as answer, elaboration, and question, etc. |
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