False News Detection on Social Media
This addresses the societal issue of false news dissemination on social media, but it is incremental as it focuses on organizing a competition and dataset rather than proposing a new detection method.
The paper tackles the problem of false news detection on social media by setting up a competition to develop automated real-time approaches, including tasks for text, image, and multi-modal detection, and provides a multi-modal dataset from Weibo to evaluate methods.
Social media has become a major information platform where people consume and share news. However, it has also enabled the wide dissemination of false news, i.e., news posts published on social media that are verifiably false, causing significant negative effects on society. In order to help prevent further propagation of false news on social media, we set up this competition to motivate the development of automated real-time false news detection approaches. Specifically, this competition includes three sub-tasks: false-news text detection, false-news image detection and false-news multi-modal detetcion, which aims to motivate participants to further explore the efficiency of multiple modalities in detecting false news and reasonable fusion approaches of multi-modal contents. To better support this competition, we also construct and publicize a multi-modal data repository about False News on Weibo Social platform(MCG-FNeWS}) to help evaluate the performance of different approaches from participants.