Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon: toward a conceptual clarification integrating actors, intentions and techniques of creation and dissemination

M Hameleers - Communication Theory, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Although disinformation has become a popular concept, we lack an integrative
conceptualization that connects the actors, intentions and techniques underlying deceptive …

Pseudo-information, media, publics, and the failing marketplace of ideas: Theory

JN Kim, H Gil de Zúñiga - American Behavioral Scientist, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The explosive usage in recent years of the terms “fake news” and “posttruth” reflects
worldwide frustration and concern about rampant social problems created by pseudo …

This is Clearly Fake! Mis-and Disinformation Beliefs and the (Accurate) Recognition of Pseudo-Information—Evidence From the United States and the Netherlands

M Hameleers - American Behavioral Scientist, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
To understand how beliefs about mis-and disinformation affect citizens'(correct)
classification of pseudo-information, this paper relies on an experimental survey study in the …

A multilingual spam reviews detection based on pre-trained word embedding and weighted swarm support vector machines

AZ Ala'M, AM Mora, H Faris - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online reviews are important information that customers seek when deciding to buy products
or services. Also, organizations benefit from these reviews as essential feedback for their …

User perceptions of AI-based comment filtering technology

YW Oh, CH Park - American Behavioral Scientist, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology enables the efficient processing of large
volumes of comments, more companies, including news publications, are experimenting …

Correcting what's true: Testing competing claims about health misinformation on social media

EK Vraga, L Bode - American Behavioral Scientist, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study expands on existing research about correcting misinformation on social media.
Using an experimental design, we explore the effects of three truth signals related to stories …

Spam reviews detection in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: Background, definitions, methods and literature analysis

AM Al-Zoubi, AM Mora, H Faris - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, people were forced to stay at home to protect their
own and others' lives. As a result, remote technology is being considered more in all aspects …

Inside or out? Perceptions of how differing types of comment moderation impact practice

P Ferrucci, J David Wolfgang - Journalism Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines how the moderation of reader comments influences journalism
practice. Through in-depth interviews with journalists working at both organizations that …

Shooting review spam with a weakly supervised approach and a sentiment-distribution-oriented method

J Li, L Yang, P Zhang - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Untruthful opinions, ballot-stuffing or bad-mouthing online commodities, are challenging to
identify because of two prominent obstacles, ie, lack of ground-truth annotations and …

Detecting fake online reviews using fine-tuned BERT

D Refaeli, P Hajek - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Fake online reviews are becoming a major problem nowadays with the growing number of
online purchases. Recently, natural language processing (NLP) methods that analyze the …