Blockchain-based Framework for Reducing Fake or Vicious News Spread on Social Media/Messaging Platforms

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Sakshi Dhall ◽  
Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi ◽  
Saibal K. Pal ◽  
Gautam Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Consensus Algorithm ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Original Message ◽  
Media Messaging ◽  
Malicious Intent

With social media becoming the most frequently used mode of modern-day communications, the propagation of fake or vicious news through such modes of communication has emerged as a serious problem. The scope of the problem of fake or vicious news may range from rumour-mongering, with intent to defame someone, to manufacturing false opinions/trends impacting elections and stock exchanges to much more alarming and mala fide repercussions of inciting violence by bad actors, especially in sensitive law-and-order situations. Therefore, curbing fake or vicious news and identifying the source of such news to ensure strict accountability is the need of the hour. Researchers have been working in the area of using text analysis, labelling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning techniques for detecting fake news, but identifying the source or originator of such news for accountability is still a big challenge for which no concrete approach exists as of today. Also, there is another common problematic trend on social media whereby targeted vicious content goes viral to mobilize or instigate people with malicious intent to destabilize normalcy in society. In the proposed solution, we treat both problems of fake news and vicious news together. We propose a blockchain and keyed watermarking-based framework for social media/messaging platforms that will allow the integrity of the posted content as well as ensure accountability on the owner/user of the post. Intrinsic properties of blockchain-like transparency and immutability are advantageous for curbing fake or vicious news. After identification of fake or vicious news, its spread will be immediately curbed through backtracking as well as forward tracking. Also, observing transactions on the blockchain, the density and rate of forwarding of a particular original message going beyond a threshold can easily be checked, which could be identified as a possible malicious attempt to spread objectionable content. If the content is deemed dangerous or inappropriate, its spread will be curbed immediately. The use of the Raft consensus algorithm and bloXroute servers is proposed to enhance throughput and network scalability, respectively. Thus, the framework offers a proactive as well as reactive, practically feasible, and effective solution for curtailment of fake or vicious news on social media/messaging platforms. The proposed work is a framework for solving fake or vicious news spread problems on social media; the complete design specifications are beyond scope of the current work and will be addressed in the future.

scholarly journals Exploring Adversarial Attacks and Defences for Fake Twitter Account Detection

Technologies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Kantartopoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Pitropakis ◽  
Alexios Mylonas ◽  
Nicolas Kylilis
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Twitter Account

Social media has become very popular and important in people’s lives, as personal ideas, beliefs and opinions are expressed and shared through them. Unfortunately, social networks, and specifically Twitter, suffer from massive existence and perpetual creation of fake users. Their goal is to deceive other users employing various methods, or even create a stream of fake news and opinions in order to influence an idea upon a specific subject, thus impairing the platform’s integrity. As such, machine learning techniques have been widely used in social networks to address this type of threat by automatically identifying fake accounts. Nonetheless, threat actors update their arsenal and launch a range of sophisticated attacks to undermine this detection procedure, either during the training or test phase, rendering machine learning algorithms vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Our work examines the propagation of adversarial attacks in machine learning based detection for fake Twitter accounts, which is based on AdaBoost. Moreover, we propose and evaluate the use of k-NN as a countermeasure to remedy the effects of the adversarial attacks that we have implemented.

scholarly journals Prediction of Fake Tweets Using Machine Learning Algorithms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sreedevi ◽  
G. Vijay Kumar ◽  
K. Kiran Kumar ◽  
B. Aruna ◽  
Arvind Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
False News

Social networking sites will attract millions of users around the globe. Internet media is becoming popular for news consumption because of its ease, simple access and fast spreading of data takes to consume news from social media. Fake news on social media is making an appearance that is attracting a huge attention. This kind of situation could bring a great conflict in real time. The false news impacts extremely negative on society, particularly in social, commercial, political world, also on individuals. Hence detection of fake news on social media became one of the emerging research topic and technically challenging task due to availability of tools on social media. In this paper various machine learning techniques are used to predict fake news on twitter data. The results shown by using these techniques are more accurate with better performance.

scholarly journals Fake News Detection: A Survey of Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 383-386
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Fake News ◽  
False Information ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
To Come

The extensive spread of fake news (low quality news with intentionally false information) has the potential for extremely negative impacts on individuals, society and particular in the political world. Therefore, fake news detection on social media has recently become an emerging research which is attracting tremendous attention. Detection of false information is technically challenging for several reasons. Use of various social media tools, content is easily generated and quickly spread, which lead to a large volume of content to analyze. Online information is very wide spread, which cover a large number of subjects, which contributes complexity to this task. The application of machine learning techniques are explored for the detection of ‘fake news’ that come from non-reputable sources which mislead real news stories. The purpose of the work is to come up with a solution that can be utilized by users to detect and filter out sites containing false and misleading information. This paper performs survey of Machine learning techniques which is mainly used for false detection and provides easier way to generate results.

scholarly journals Fake News Detection on Social Media using Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 940-943
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Day By Day

: Web based life administrations, as Facebook and Twitter, Renren, Instagram, and linkedin have recently become an enormous and persistent supply of day by day news. These stages give a huge number of clients and give numerous administrations, for example, content arrangement and distributing. Not all distributed information via internet based medium is dependable and exact. Numerous individuals attempt to distribute fake and mistaken news so as to control general conclusion. Counterfeit news might be intentionally made to advance money related, political and public premiums, and can lead to unsafe effects on people convictions and choices.. In this paper we examine different systems for recognizing counterfeit information via internet based networking medium. Our point is to locate a dependable and right model that arranges a given article as fake or genuine. For identification of fake articles we use machine learning algorithms.

scholarly journals Exploring Text-based Emotions Recognition Machine Learning Techniques on Social Media Conversation

2021 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 821-828
Author(s):  
Andry Chowanda ◽  
Rhio Sutoyo ◽  
Meiliana ◽  
Sansiri Tanachutiwat
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Techniques

A sentiment analysis system for social media using machine learning techniques: Social enablement

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujata Rani ◽  
Parteek Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Learning Techniques

Abstract In this article, an innovative approach to perform the sentiment analysis (SA) has been presented. The proposed system handles the issues of Romanized or abbreviated text and spelling variations in the text to perform the sentiment analysis. The training data set of 3,000 movie reviews and tweets has been manually labeled by native speakers of Hindi in three classes, i.e. positive, negative, and neutral. The system uses WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) tool to convert these string data into numerical matrices and applies three machine learning techniques, i.e. Naive Bayes (NB), J48, and support vector machine (SVM). The proposed system has been tested on 100 movie reviews and tweets, and it has been observed that SVM has performed best in comparison to other classifiers, and it has an accuracy of 68% for movie reviews and 82% in case of tweets. The results of the proposed system are very promising and can be used in emerging applications like SA of product reviews and social media analysis. Additionally, the proposed system can be used in other cultural/social benefits like predicting/fighting human riots.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis in Social Media using Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayder A. Alatabi ◽  
Ayad R. Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Media Data

Over the last period, social media achieved a widespread use worldwide where the statistics indicate that more than three billion people are on social media, leading to large quantities of data online. To analyze these large quantities of data, a special classification method known as sentiment analysis, is used. This paper presents a new sentiment analysis system based on machine learning techniques, which aims to create a process to extract the polarity from social media texts. By using machine learning techniques, sentiment analysis achieved a great success around the world. This paper investigates this topic and proposes a sentiment analysis system built on Bayesian Rough Decision Tree (BRDT) algorithm. The experimental results show the success of this system where the accuracy of the system is more than 95% on social media data.

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