Preserving the Integrity and Credibility of the Online Information Ecosystem

Matthew Sumpter, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
2021 IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin  
The Internet seems awash with information that is either inaccurate or shared with malicious intents, or both. While this is not the first time that society has had to deal with this problem, certain features of our modern, fast-paced, data-driven information ecosystem seem to exacerbate it. Thus it is extremely important to equip journalists and fact-checkers, and of course the public at large, with tools to help them deal with the proliferation of false and misleading information and to
more » ... e the quality of information circulating online. In this paper we survey the state of the work in this area, focusing in particular on the challenges stemming from dealing with the peculiar nature of social media data, and discuss recent proposals to devise scalable and accurate signals of information quality.
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