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Fact-Check Spreading Behavior in Twitter: A Qualitative Profile for False-Claim News

2020; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-45691-7_16

2194-5357

Francisco S. Marcondes, José João Almeida, Dalila Durães, Paulo Nováis,

Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Fact-check spread is usually performed by a plain tweet with just the link. Since it is not proper human behavior, it may cause uncanny, hinder the reader’s attention and harm the counter-propaganda influence. This paper presents a profile of fact-check link spread in Twitter (suiting for TRL-1) and, as an additional outcome, proposes a preliminary behavior design based on it (suiting for TRL-2). The underlying hypothesis is by simulating human-like behavior, a bot gets more attention and exerts more influence on its followers.