Security News > 2021 > February > Researchers develop approach that can recognize fake news

Social media is increasingly used to spread fake news.

The same problem can be found on the capital market - criminals spread fake news about companies in order to manipulate share prices.

Researchers at the Universities of Göttingen and Frankfurt and the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana have developed an approach that can recognize such fake news, even when the news contents are repeatedly adapted.

The key problem with the current methods is that to avoid being recognized, fraudsters continuously adapt the content and avoid certain words that are used to identify the fake news.

This is where the researchers' new approach comes in: to identify fake news despite such strategies to evade detection, they combine models recently developed by the researchers in such a way that high detection rates and robustness come together.

So even if "Suspicious" words disappear from the text, the fake news is still recognized by its linguistic features.

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