Information management in healthcare and environment: towards an automatic system for fake news detection

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lara-Navarra, Pablo (author), Falciani, Herve (author), Sanchez-Perez, Enrique A. (author), and Ferrer-Sapena, Antonia (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2020
    URL:
    www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
    Published:
    Interational
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11364
    Journal Title:
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    Journal Title Details:
    17, 1066
    Subject Term:
    environment, environmental communication, health information, information issues, learning, news, health, information quality, social media, tweeting, rumor, health care, gossip, fake news, false claims, and tweets
    Notes:
    12 pages., Authors presented an algorithm to analyze the behaviour of users of Twitter involving the environment and health care. To illustrate, they presented a concrete example of how the associated graph structure of the tweets related to World Environment Day 2019 was used to develop a heuristic analysis of the validity of the information.

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