Papers by Or Levi
Identifying Nuances in Fake News vs. Satire: Using Semantic and Linguistic Cues (D19-50)
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| Challenge: | a blurry line between fake news and protected-speech satire has been a struggle for social media platforms . purveyors of fake news have begun to masquerade as satirical sites to avoid being demoted . |
| Approach: | They propose to automatically classify fake news versus satire based on language differences . they hypothesize that nuances could be identified using semantic and linguistic cues . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can identify nuances between fake news and satire based on language differences . the proposed method is compared to the language-based baseline and is highly scalable . |