Rumor Detection on Social Media: Datasets, Methods and Opportunities
It addresses the problem of rumor and fake news spreading on social media for researchers and practitioners, but is incremental as it is a review paper.
This paper provides an overview of recent studies in rumor detection on social media, reviewing datasets, methods, and future research directions.
Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and fake news. Many efforts have been taken to detect and debunk rumors on social media by analyzing their content and social context using machine learning techniques. This paper gives an overview of the recent studies in the rumor detection field. It provides a comprehensive list of datasets used for rumor detection, and reviews the important studies based on what types of information they exploit and the approaches they take. And more importantly, we also present several new directions for future research.