A Survey on the Use of Graph Convolutional Networks for Combating Fake News

Iraklis Varlamis, Dimitrios Michail, Foteini Glykou and Panagiotis Tsantilas
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Iraklis Varlamis: Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, 17671 Athens, Greece
Dimitrios Michail: Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, 17671 Athens, Greece
Foteini Glykou: Palo Services Ltd., 10562 Athens, Greece
Panagiotis Tsantilas: Palo Services Ltd., 10562 Athens, Greece

Future Internet, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: The combat against fake news and disinformation is an ongoing, multi-faceted task for researchers in social media and social networks domains, which comprises not only the detection of false facts in published content but also the detection of accountability mechanisms that keep a record of the trustfulness of sources that generate news and, lately, of the networks that deliberately distribute fake information. In the direction of detecting and handling organized disinformation networks, major social media and social networking sites are currently developing strategies and mechanisms to block such attempts. The role of machine learning techniques, especially neural networks, is crucial in this task. The current work focuses on the popular and promising graph representation techniques and performs a survey of the works that employ Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to the task of detecting fake news, fake accounts and rumors that spread in social networks. It also highlights the available benchmark datasets employed in current research for validating the performance of the proposed methods. This work is a comprehensive survey of the use of GCNs in the combat against fake news and aims to be an ideal starting point for future researchers in the field.

Keywords: fake news; graph convolutional networks (GCNs); misinformation; fake accounts; bots; astroturfing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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