The Rise of Guardians: Fact-checking URL Recommendation to Combat Fake News

1 code implementation • The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, July 08-12, 2018 2018 • Vo, Nguyen; Lee, Kyumin

To fill this gap, in this paper, we (i) collect and analyze online users called guardians, who correct misinformation and fake news in online discussions by referring fact-checking URLs; and (ii) propose a novel fact-checking URL recommendation model to encourage the guardians to engage more in fact-checking activities.

Fact Checking Fake News Detection +2