Abstract

Nowadays, striking growth of online social media has led to easier and faster spreading of rumors on cyber space, in addition to tradition ways. In this paper, rumor detection on Persian Twitter community has been addressed for the first time by exploring and analyzing the significances of two categories of rumor features: Structural and Content-based features. While applying both feature sets leads to precision more than 80%, precision around 70% using only structural features has been obtained. Moreover, we show how features of users tending to produce and spread rumors are effective in rumor detection process. Also, the experiments have led to learning of a language model of collected rumors. Finally, all features have been ranked and the most discriminative ones have been discussed.

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