Ginger cannot cure cancer: Battling fake health news with a comprehensive data repository

Enyan Dai; Yiwei Sun; Suhang Wang

Ginger cannot cure cancer: Battling fake health news with a comprehensive data repository

Enyan Dai
, Yiwei Sun
, Suhang Wang

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

Nowadays, Internet is a primary source of attaining health information. Massive fake health news which is spreading over the Internet, has become a severe threat to public health. Numerous studies and research works have been done in fake news detection domain, however, few of them are designed to cope with the challenges in health news. For instance, the development of explainable is required for fake health news detection. To mitigate these problems, we construct a comprehensive repository, FakeHealth, which includes news contents with rich features, news reviews with detailed explanations, social engagements and a user-user social network. Moreover, exploratory analyses are conducted to understand the characteristics of the datasets, analyze useful patterns and validate the quality of the datasets for health fake news detection. We also discuss the novel and potential future research directions for the health fake news detection.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020
Publisher	AAAI press
Pages	853-862
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781577357889
State	Published - 2020
Event	14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020 - Atlanta, Virtual, United States Duration: Jun 8 2020 → Jun 11 2020

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Name	Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020

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Conference	14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta, Virtual
Period	6/8/20 → 6/11/20

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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Computer Networks and Communications

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Dai, E, Sun, Y & Wang, S 2020, Ginger cannot cure cancer: Battling fake health news with a comprehensive data repository. in Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020. Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020, AAAI press, pp. 853-862, 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020, Atlanta, Virtual, United States, 6/8/20.

Ginger cannot cure cancer: Battling fake health news with a comprehensive data repository. / Dai, Enyan; Sun, Yiwei; Wang, Suhang.
Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020. AAAI press, 2020. p. 853-862 (Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020).

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