Œe proliferation of social media in communication and information dissemination has made it an ideal platform for spreading rumors. Automatically debunking rumors at their stage of di‚usion is known as early rumor detection, which refers to dealing with sequential posts regarding disputed factual claims with certain variations and highly textual duplication over time. Œus, identifying trending ...

This study determines the major difference between rumors and non-rumors and explores rumor classification performance levels over varying time windows-from the first three days to nearly two months. A comprehensive set of user, structural, linguistic, and temporal features was examined and their relative strength was compared from near-complete date of Twitter. Our contribution is at providing...

The purpose of this study is to find the difference of the information diffusion between the news and rumors in the social media network. We use the tweets from South American, and analyze the social medial network and the information propagation property based on the false rumors and real confirmed news. Our result shows that the social media network of the false rumor has some unique features...

Online social networks provide a rich substrate for rumor propagation. Information received via friends tends to be trusted, and online social networks allow individuals to transmit information to many friends at once. By referencing known rumors from Snopes.com, a popular website documenting memes and urban legends, we track the propagation of thousands of rumors appearing on Facebook. From th...

This article is an analysis of rumors about Internet scamming told by Internet café users in the West African capital city of Accra, Ghana. Rumors provided accounts of how the Internet can be effectively operated by young Ghanaians to realize ‘‘big gains’’ through foreign connections. Yet these accounts were contradicted by the less promising direct experiences users had at the computer interfa...

crisis management, as one of the key activities in strategic management has significant importance. one of the major requirements of crisis management is the high level of readiness and qualification of human resources responsible for crisis management. the focus of this paper is on presenting a crisis management model with human resources approach. first, we reviewed the literature and extract...

rumors regarding the nature and influence of social anxiety that can increase productivity and reduce production and social validity employees, managers, agencies and organizations impair the. in this regard, we expect people who are ethics obligation, understand, analyze and manage rumors, have distinct behaviors. this study aimed to describe concepts such as gossip and review of management pr...

Why do people spread rumors? This paper studies the transmission of possibly false information—by rational agents who seek the truth. Unbiased agents earn payoffs when a collective decision is correct in that it matches the true state of the world. Biased agents desire a particular decision regardless of the true state. One agent possibly learns the true underlying state and chooses whether to ...