Abstract

With the widespread of fake news on social media, its impact has become a major concern of the public, so accurate detection methods are urgently needed. As content-based features are the most natural clues for fake news detection, many methods that rely solely on text content have been proposed. However, these methods rarely investigate the sentence interaction patterns of different news articles, and most of them do not consider fine-grained fake news classification. To overcome these issues, this article constructs a graph representation for news articles and employs a graph neural network (GNN) to classify fake news. The proposed method uses the local word co-occurrence information of sentences to obtain the interaction relationship between sentences, which is abstracted by the weight matrix of the graph representation. Accordingly, a third-order co-occurrence tensor is built, and the weight matrix is calculated based on the canonical polyadic (CP) decomposition of this tensor. Since our method considers the sentence interaction patterns, the computed representations can capture more accurate contextual information of news articles. The results on two real-world datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms the competing methods in both binary and multiclass classification tasks. In particular, for multiclass classification on the selected dataset with <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$70$</tex-math> </inline-formula> % of the training set for training, the improvements of accuracy and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$F1$</tex-math> </inline-formula> -score are <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.82$</tex-math> </inline-formula> %p– <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16.98$</tex-math> </inline-formula> %p and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.85$</tex-math> </inline-formula> %p– <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16.65$</tex-math> </inline-formula> %p, respectively.

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