• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.35-51
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• 2021

This study measured the effects of fake news and propaganda on managing information on COVID-19 among the Nigerian citizenry. This study examined sources of information on COVID-19 available to the people, evaluated reasons behind spreading fake news, examined how fake news has affected the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, established the consequences of fake news on managing COVID-19 pandemic and as well identified ways to contain fake news at a time like this in Nigeria.It is a survey with a sample size of 375 participants selected using simple random technique. Instrument of data gathering was questionnaire widely distributed in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria using Survey monkey. Data was analysed using frequencies, counts and percentages, tables and charts. Findings revealed that people rely more on radio, television, and social media for information on COVID-19. Fake news is spread by people mostly for political reasons and intention to cause panic. In Nigeria, fake news has led to disbelief of the existence of the virus thereby leading to violation of precautionary measures among the citizenry and lack of trust in the government. Concerted effort on the part of the government is required to give public enlightenment on the danger of fake news. Also, directorate of anti-fake news should be established to censor and reprimand sources of fake news. People should always check source of information to confirm its credibility and be weary of sharing unconfirmed information especially on the social media.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.40-53
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• 2019

Although fake news has been present in human history at any time, nowadays, with social media, deceptive information has a stronger effect on society than before. This article answers two research questions, namely (1) Is the dissemination of fake news supported by machines through the automatic construction of filter bubbles, and (2) Are echo chambers of fake news manmade, and if yes, what are the information behavior patterns of those individuals reacting to fake news? We discuss the role of filter bubbles by analyzing social media's ranking and results' presentation algorithms. To understand the roles of individuals in the process of making and cultivating echo chambers, we empirically study the effects of fake news on the information behavior of the audience, while working with a case study, applying quantitative and qualitative content analysis of online comments and replies (on a blog and on Reddit). Indeed, we found hints on filter bubbles; however, they are fed by the users' information behavior and only amplify users' behavioral patterns. Reading fake news and eventually drafting a comment or a reply may be the result of users' selective exposure to information leading to a confirmation bias; i.e. users prefer news (including fake news) fitting their pre-existing opinions. However, it is not possible to explain all information behavior patterns following fake news with the theory of selective exposure, but with a variety of further individual cognitive structures, such as non-argumentative or off-topic behavior, denial, moral outrage, meta-comments, insults, satire, and creation of a new rumor.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.945-963
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• 2022

With the widespread use of social media, online social platforms like Twitter have become a place of rapid dissemination of information-both accurate and inaccurate. After the COVID-19 outbreak, the overabundance of fake information and rumours on online social platforms about the COVID-19 pandemic has spread over society as quickly as the virus itself. As a result, fake news poses a significant threat to effective virus response by negatively affecting people's willingness to follow the proper public health guidelines and protocols, which makes it important to identify fake information from online platforms for the public interest. In this research, we introduce an approach to detect fake news using deep learning techniques, which outperform traditional machine learning techniques with a 93.1% accuracy. We then investigate the content differences between real and fake news by applying topic modeling and linguistic analysis. Our results show that topics on Politics and Government services are most common in fake news. In addition, we found that fake news has lower analytic and authenticity scores than real news. With the findings, we discuss important academic and practical implications of the study.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.19-36
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• 2023

정보통신기술의 발전으로 인해 누구나 쉽게 정보를 생산, 유포할 수 있게 되면서, 이를 악용하여 의도적으로 유포하는 거짓 정보인 가짜뉴스가 새로운 문제로 대두되기 시작하였다. 초기에 텍스트 방식으로 주로 전파되던 가짜뉴스는 점차 진화하여 이제는 멀티미디어 형식으로 퍼지고 있다. 유튜브는 2005년에 설립된 이후 세계 최고의 동영상 플랫폼으로 성장하면서 전 세계 사람들이 대부분 이용하고 있다. 하지만 유튜브는 가짜뉴스가 퍼지는 주요 창구가 되며 사회적인 문제를 일으키고 있다. 유튜브의 가짜뉴스를 탐지하기 위하여 다양한 학자들이 연구를 진행해 왔다. 가짜뉴스 탐지 연구에는 콘텐츠 기반의 접근과 배경정보 기반의 접근이 존재하는데 기존 가짜뉴스 연구와 유튜브의 가짜뉴스 탐지 연구를 살펴보면 콘텐츠 기반의 접근이 다수를 차지하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 콘텐츠 기반의 가짜뉴스 탐지가 아닌 배경정보 기반의 가짜뉴스 탐지기법을 제안하는데, 그 중에서도 유튜브에서 제공하는 관련 동영상 정보를 활용하여 가짜뉴스를 탐지하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 구체적으로 관련 동영상에서 얻은 정보와 원본 동영상에서 얻은 정보를 임베딩 기술인 Doc2vec을 이용하여 벡터화 한 후, 딥러닝 네트워크인 합성곱 신경망(CNN)을 통하여 가짜뉴스를 판별하고자 하였다. 실증분석 결과 제안 기법은 기존의 콘텐츠 기반으로 유튜브 가짜뉴스를 탐지하는 접근에 비해 보다 우수한 예측 성능을 보임을 확인하였다. 이러한 본 연구의 제안 기법은 파급력이 높은 유튜브 상에서 유포되는 가짜뉴스의 전파를 사전에 예방함으로써, 우리사회를 보다 안전하고 신뢰할 수 있도록 만드는데 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.01-23
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• 2022

Purpose This study aims to propose a deep learning-based fake review detection model by combining authors' linguistic features and semantic information of reviews. Design/methodology/approach This study used 358,071 review data of Yelp to develop fake review detection model. We employed linguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC) to extract 24 linguistic features of authors. Then we used deep learning architectures such as multilayer perceptron(MLP), long short-term memory(LSTM) and transformer to learn linguistic features and semantic features for fake review detection. Findings The results of our study show that detection models using both linguistic and semantic features outperformed other models using single type of features. In addition, this study confirmed that differences in linguistic features between fake reviewer and authentic reviewer are significant. That is, we found that linguistic features complement semantic information of reviews and further enhance predictive power of fake detection model.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.197-216
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• 2022

인터넷 및 모바일 기술의 발달과 소셜미디어의 확산으로 인해 다량의 정보들이 온라인 상에서 생성, 유통되고 있다. 이중에는 대중에게 도움이 되는 유익한 정보들도 있지만, 역기능을 하는 이른바 가짜뉴스들도 함께 유통되고 있다. 지난 2020년 코로나19의 전세계적인 확산 이후, 온라인 상에는 이와 관련한 수많은 가짜뉴스들이 유통되었다. 다른 가짜뉴스들과 달리 코로나19와 관련된 가짜뉴스는 사람들의 건강, 나아가 생명까지 위협할 수 있다는 점에서 그 심각성이 매우 크다고 할 수 있다. 때문에 코로나19와 관련한 가짜뉴스를 자동으로 탐지하고, 이를 예방하는 지능형 기술은 사회적 건강도를 제고하는데 매우 의미 있는 연구주제라 할 수 있다. 이러한 배경에서 본 연구에서는 코로나19 관련 가짜뉴스 탐지를 효과적으로 수행하기 위해 그래프 임베딩 방법 중 하나인 Graph2vec을 활용한 방법을 제안한다. 가짜뉴스 탐지에 대한 주류 방법은 뉴스 콘텐츠 기반 즉, 텍스트에 대한 특징 분석으로 진행되었으나 본 연구에서는 사회적 참여 네트워크 내에서의 정보 전달 관계를 추가로 활용함으로써 보다 효과적으로 코로나19와 관련된 가짜뉴스를 탐지할 수 있었으며 성능 측면에서 정확도 향상을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.87-103
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to explore the factors influencing acceptance (e.g., comprehension,) and diffusion of information recipients' by depending on the authenticity of news. Specifically, this study has examined the effects of the news contents(political vs. general), need for cognition(high vs. low) and authenticity of the News(real news vs. fake news) on both acceptance and diffusion of news. Based on previous work, this study has developed a conceptual model to present each research hypothesis and tested it by conducting experiments as the follows. As a result, according to the authenticity of the news and the contents of the news (political and general), the acceptance of political contents was high regardless of the authenticity of the news, and the acceptance of real news was higher than that of fake news. However, in the proliferation (comment), both the political contents and the general contents showed the characteristic of spreading (commenting) fake news rather than real news. contrary to this, the cognitive level did not show any significant difference in acceptance (understanding) and proliferation (comment, sharing, recommendation). This study provides academic implications in that it examines the influences of accepting (comprehension) and diffusion (comment, sharing, recommendation) of real news and fake news. It also provides practical implications for responding to fake news and new marketing strategies in an environment where contents are delivered through diverse social media.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2019

On the Internet age, the news is generated and distributed not only by traditional news media, but also by a variety of online news media, news platforms, content websites/content farms, and social media. Since it is an easy task to create and distribute news, some of these news reports may contain fake or false facts. In the end, the cyberspace is full of fake or false messages. People may wonder if these fake news actually influence our decision making. In this paper, we discussed a real case of fake news. In this case, a Taiwanese company used some fake news, advertorial news, and news placement to manipulate or influence its stock price and trade volume. We collected all news for the case company during a period of four years and five months (from January 2013 to May 2017). We analyzed the relationship between published news and stock price. Based on the analysis results, we conclude that we should not ignore the influence of news placement and fake business news on the stock price.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2014년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.79-81
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• 2014

전자 상거래 리뷰 정보에 대한 소비자들의 의존도가 증가하고 있다. 제품 리뷰는 잠재적인 고객의 구매 결정에 있어 중요한 결정 요소이다. 제품 리뷰는 또한 상품 제조사들이 자신들의 제품에 대한 문제점을 발견하고 자신들의 경쟁자들에 대한 경쟁 정보를 수집할 수 있도록 해준다. 불행히도 많은 온라인 제품 정보들이 그 제품에 대한 진짜 고객들에 의해 만들어지지 않은 것이라는 것은 잘 알려진 사실이다. 리뷰를 쓰는 사람들은, 특정 제품의 평판을 떨어뜨리기 위해 가짜로 부정적인 리뷰를 쓰거나, 특정 제품에 대해 부당하게 긍정적인 리뷰를 써서 그 제품을 홍보하기도 한다. 이러한 리뷰들을 가짜 리뷰라고 한다. 가짜 리뷰 판별 기법은 가짜 리뷰를 판별하고 삭제하여 진실한 리뷰들만 독자에게 제공하기 위한 기법이다. 현재까지 이 문제에 대한 연구는 많이 발표되지 않았다. 본 논문에서, 우리는 관련 연구들을 조사하고 가짜 리뷰 판별 기법들에 대해 간단히 조망해 보고자 한다. 웹 스팸 및 이메일 스팸과 같은 가짜 리뷰 판별과 관련된 연구들을 소개한다. 그리고, 가짜 리뷰들을 판별하기 위한 방법들을 소개하고 요약한다. 마지막으로 가짜 리뷰 판별에 대한 연구 추세들로 결론을 맺는다.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2022

This study aimed to understand young adults' attitudes concerning news and news resources they consumed, and how they encounter the fake news phenomenon. A qualitative approach was used with semi-structured interviews with 41 young adults (aged 20-30) in Tehran, Iran. Findings revealed that about half of the participants favored social media, and a smaller group used traditional media and only a few maintained that traditional and modern media should be used together. News quality was considered to be lower on social media than in traditional news sources. Furthermore, young adults usually followed the news related to the issues which had impact on their daily life, and they typically tended to share news. To detect fake news, they checked several media to compare the information; and profiteering and attracting audiences' attention were the most important reasons for the existence of fake news. This is the first qualitative study for understanding news consumption behavior of young adults in a politicized society.