• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.19-32
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• 2018

Fake news is defined as the news articles that are intentionally and verifiably false, and could mislead readers. Spread of fake news may provoke anxiety, chaos, fear, or irrational decisions of the public. Thus, detecting fake news and preventing its spread has become very important issue in our society. However, due to the huge amount of fake news produced every day, it is almost impossible to identify it by a human. Under this context, researchers have tried to develop automated fake news detection method using Artificial Intelligence techniques over the past years. But, unfortunately, there have been no prior studies proposed an automated fake news detection method for Korean news. In this study, we aim to detect Korean fake news using text mining and machine learning techniques. Our proposed method consists of two steps. In the first step, the news contents to be analyzed is convert to quantified values using various text mining techniques (Topic Modeling, TF-IDF, and so on). After that, in step 2, classifiers are trained using the values produced in step 1. As the classifiers, machine learning techniques such as multiple discriminant analysis, case based reasoning, artificial neural networks, and support vector machine can be applied. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we collected 200 Korean news from Seoul National University's FactCheck (http://factcheck.snu.ac.kr). which provides with detailed analysis reports from about 20 media outlets and links to source documents for each case. Using this dataset, we will identify which text features are important as well as which classifiers are effective in detecting Korean fake news.

• 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.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.294-302
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• 2022

Detection of fake news is a complex and a challenging task. Generation of fake news is very hard to stop, only steps to control its circulation may help in minimizing its impacts. Humans tend to believe in misleading false information. Researcher started with social media sites to categorize in terms of real or fake news. False information misleads any individual or an organization that may cause of big failure and any financial loss. Automatic system for detection of false information circulating on social media is an emerging area of research. It is gaining attention of both industry and academia since US presidential elections 2016. Fake news has negative and severe effects on individuals and organizations elongating its hostile effects on the society. Prediction of fake news in timely manner is important. This research focuses on detection of fake news spreaders. In this context, overall, 6 models are developed during this research, trained and tested with dataset of PAN 2020. Four approaches N-gram based; user statistics-based models are trained with different values of hyper parameters. Extensive grid search with cross validation is applied in each machine learning model. In N-gram based models, out of numerous machine learning models this research focused on better results yielding algorithms, assessed by deep reading of state-of-the-art related work in the field. For better accuracy, author aimed at developing models using Random Forest, Logistic Regression, SVM, and XGBoost. All four machine learning algorithms were trained with cross validated grid search hyper parameters. Advantages of this research over previous work is user statistics-based model and then ensemble learning model. Which were designed in a way to help classifying Twitter users as fake news spreader or not with highest reliability. User statistical model used 17 features, on the basis of which it categorized a Twitter user as malicious. New dataset based on predictions of machine learning models was constructed. And then Three techniques of simple mean, logistic regression and random forest in combination with ensemble model is applied. Logistic regression combined in ensemble model gave best training and testing results, achieving an accuracy of 72%.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.67-104
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• 2020

Fake news and disinformation provoked heated arguments during Taiwan's 2018 local election. Most significantly, concerns grew that Beijing was attempting to sway the island's politics armed with a new "Russian-style influence campaign" weapon (Horton, 2018). To investigate the speculated effects of the "onslaught of misinformation," an online survey with 1068 randomly selected voters was conducted immediately after the election. Findings confirmed that false news affected Taiwanese voters' judgment of the news and their voting decisions. More than 50% of the voters cast their votes without knowing the correct campaign news. In particular, politically neutral voters, who were the least able to discern fake news, tended to vote for the China-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) candidates. Demographic analysis further revealed that female voters tended to be more likely to believe fake news during the election period compared to male voters. Younger or lower-income voters had the lowest levels of discernment of fake news. Further analyses and the implications of these findings for international societies are deliberated in the conclusion.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.50-58
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• 2019

The clear and specific objective of this study is to design a false news discriminator algorithm for news articles transmitted on a text-based basis and an architecture that builds it into a system (H/W configuration with Hadoop-based in-memory technology, Deep Learning S/W design for bigdata and SNS linkage). Based on learning data on actual news, the government will submit advanced "fake news" test data as a result and complete theoretical research based on it. The need for research proposed by this study is social cost paid by rumors (including malicious comments) and rumors (written false news) due to the flood of fake news, false reports, rumors and stabbings, among other social challenges. In addition, fake news can distort normal communication channels, undermine human mutual trust, and reduce social capital at the same time. The final purpose of the study is to upgrade the study to a topic that is difficult to distinguish between false and exaggerated, fake and hypocrisy, sincere and false, fraud and error, truth and false.

• 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.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.179-188
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• 2023

최근 가짜뉴스는 뉴스 콘텐츠 형식을 가장하고 중요한 사건이 발생할 때마다 등장하여 사회적 혼란을 초래한다. 이에 가짜뉴스를 탐지하기 위한 연구로 인공지능 기술이 사용된다. 자연어 처리를 통해 가짜뉴스를 자동으로 인지 및 차단하거나, 네트워크 인과 추론과 결합함으로써 허위 정보를 확산시키는 소셜미디어 인플루언스 계정을 감지하는 등의 가짜뉴스 탐지 접근법이 딥러닝을 통해 구현될 수 있었다. 그러나 가짜뉴스 탐지는 여러 자연어 처리 분야 중에서도 해결이 어려운 문제로 분류된다. 가짜뉴스가 가지는 형식 및 표현의 다양성으로 특성 추출의 난도가 높고, 뉴스가 속한 범주에 따라 하나의 특성이 서로 다른 의미를 가질 수도 있는 등 다양한 한계점이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 가짜뉴스를 탐지하기 위한 추가적인 식별 기준으로 감성 변화 패턴을 제시한다. 합성곱 신경망을 가짜뉴스 데이터 세트에 적용하여 콘텐츠 특성에 기반한 분석을 수행하고, 감성 변화 패턴을 추가로 분석함으로써 성능이 개선된 모델을 제안한다. 뉴스를 구성하는 문장에 대하여 감성 극성을 산출하고 장단기 메모리를 적용함으로써 문장 순서에 의존적인 결괏값을 얻을 수 있다. 이를 감성 변화의 패턴으로 정의하고 뉴스의 콘텐츠 특성과 결합하여 가짜뉴스 탐지를 위한 제안 모델의 독립변수로 활용한다. 제안 모델과 비교 모델을 딥러닝으로 학습시키고 가짜뉴스 데이터 세트를 이용한 실험을 진행하여 감성 변화 패턴이 가짜뉴스 탐지 성능을 개선할 수 있음을 확인한다.

• 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.

• 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.