Journal of Data and Information Quality

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information campaigns with targeted manipulation of public opinion on specific topics. These ...

With the increasing popularity of online review systems, a large volume of user-generated content becomes available to help people make reasonable judgments about the quality of services and products from unknown providers. However, these platforms are ...

We study the problem of automatic fact-checking, paying special attention to the impact of contextual and discourse information. We address two related tasks: (i) detecting check-worthy claims and (ii) fact-checking claims. We develop supervised systems ...

This article presents a new framework that incorporates graph patterns to support fact checking in knowledge graphs. Our method discovers discriminant graph patterns to construct classifiers for fact prediction. First, we propose a class of graph fact ...

Fake news is nowadays an issue of pressing concern, given its recent rise as a potential threat to high-quality journalism and well-informed public discourse. The Fake News Challenge (FNC-1) was organized in early 2017 to encourage the development of ...

The data revolution continues to transform every sector of science, industry, and government. Due to the incredible impact of data-driven technology on society, we are becoming increasingly aware of the imperative to use data and algorithms responsibly—...