@inproceedings{f8c5975b47204b71b6a25b12f69fb0e9,
title = "{"}This is Fake! Shared it by Mistake{"}:Assessing the Intent of Fake News Spreaders",
abstract = "Individuals can be misled by fake news and spread it unintentionally without knowing it is false. This phenomenon has been frequently observed but has not been investigated. Our aim in this work is to assess the intent of fake news spreaders. To distinguish between intentional versus unintentional spreading, we study the psychological explanations of unintentional spreading. With this foundation, we then propose an influence graph, using which we assess the intent of fake news spreaders. Our extensive experiments show that the assessed intent can help significantly differentiate between intentional and unintentional fake news spreaders. Furthermore, the estimated intent can significantly improve the current techniques that detect fake news. To our best knowledge, this is the first work to model individuals' intent in fake news spreading.",
keywords = "Fake news, intent, social media",
author = "Xinyi Zhou and Kai Shu and Phoha, {Vir V.} and Huan Liu and Reza Zafarani",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 ACM.; 31st ACM World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2022 ; Conference date: 25-04-2022 Through 29-04-2022",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1145/3485447.3512264",
language = "English (US)",
series = "WWW 2022 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "3685--3694",
booktitle = "WWW 2022 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022",
}