Challenge: Social media platforms do not always pose authentic information, and rumors spread fear or hate.
Approach: They propose a new multi-task learning approach for rumor detection and stance classification tasks.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art rumor detection approaches on two datasets.

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