Research Article
Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media: An Updated Survey of Challenges and Current Trends
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-31469-8_2, author={Fabrizio Lo Scudo}, title={Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media: An Updated Survey of Challenges and Current Trends}, proceedings={Pervasive Knowledge and Collective Intelligence on Web and Social Media. First EAI International Conference, PerSOM 2022, Messina, Italy, November 17-18, 2022, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={PERSOM}, year={2023}, month={4}, keywords={Misinformation Deep Learning Social Media}, doi={10.1007/978-3-031-31469-8_2} }- Fabrizio Lo Scudo
Year: 2023
Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media: An Updated Survey of Challenges and Current Trends
PERSOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31469-8_2
Abstract
Over the last decade, Social Media has been gradually shaping our world. From the Brexit to Ukraine war, passing through US election and COVID-19, there has been increasing attention on how social media affects our society. This attention has nowadays become an active research field in which researchers from different fields have proposed interdisciplinary solutions mainly aimed at fake news detection and prevention. Although this task is far to be solved.
Fake news detection is intrinsically hard since we have to cope with textual data; moreover the early detection requirement, to prevent wide diffusion, makes things even harder. If we now add a dynamic component to the problem definition we can easily understand why researchers have been keeping proposing new solutions to deal with new nuances of the problem. In this so fast-changing field, it is easy for newcomers to get lost. The scope of this work is not to provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art approaches but instead a quick overview of the recent trends and how current technologies try to deal with the unresolved issues that characterize this task.
