Pheme: Veracity in Digital Social Networks
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PHEME attempts to identify four kinds of false claim in social media and on the web, in real time: rumours, disinformation, misinformation and speculation. This brings challenges in modelling the behaviour of individual users, networks of users and information diffusion. This presentation proposal discusses the issues addressed by the project and the challenges it faces, in this emerging and rapidly-developing domain.
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