Identifying fake news has become an important issue. Increasing usage of social media has led to an increase in the number of people who can be influenced, thus the spread of fake news can potentially impact important events. Fake news has become a major societal issue and a technical challenge for social media companies to identify and has led many to extreme measures, such as WhatsApp deleting two million of its users every month to prevent the spread of fake news. The current problem of fake news is rooted in the historical problem of disinformation, which is false information intentionally, and usually clandestinely, disseminated to manipulate public opinion or obfuscate the truth. Our work addresses the problem of identifying fake news by (i) detecting and analyzing fake news features (ii) identifying the textual and sociocultural characteristics fake news features.

识别假新闻已成为一个重要问题。社交媒体使用的增加导致可受影响的人数增加，因此，假新闻的传播可能会影响重要事件。假新闻已成为社会的主要问题，也是社交媒体公司要识别的一项技术挑战，并已导致许多极端措施，例如WhatsApp每月删除200万用户以防止假新闻传播。当前的虚假新闻问题源于虚假信息的历史问题，虚假新闻是有意的，通常是秘密传播的虚假信息，以操纵舆论或混淆真相。