Susceptibility of Communities against Low-Credibility Content in Social News Websites
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| author | Bayiz, Yigit Ege Amini, Arash Marculescu, Radu Topcu, Ufuk |
| author_facet | Bayiz, Yigit Ege Amini, Arash Marculescu, Radu Topcu, Ufuk |
| contents | Social news websites, such as Reddit, have evolved into prominent platforms for sharing and discussing news. A key issue on social news websites sites is the formation of echo chambers, which often lead to the spread of highly biased or uncredible news. We develop a method to identify communities within a social news website that are prone to uncredible or highly biased news. We employ a user embedding pipeline that detects user communities based on their stances towards posts and news sources. We then project each community onto a credibility-bias space and analyze the distributional characteristics of each projected community to identify those that have a high risk of adopting beliefs with low credibility or high bias. This approach also enables the prediction of individual users' susceptibility to low credibility content, based on their community affiliation. Our experiments show that latent space clusters effectively indicate the credibility and bias levels of their users, with significant differences observed across clusters -- a $34\%$ difference in the users' susceptibility to low-credibility content and a $8.3\%$ difference in the users' susceptibility to high political bias. |
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| spellingShingle | Susceptibility of Communities against Low-Credibility Content in Social News Websites Bayiz, Yigit Ege Amini, Arash Marculescu, Radu Topcu, Ufuk Social and Information Networks Social news websites, such as Reddit, have evolved into prominent platforms for sharing and discussing news. A key issue on social news websites sites is the formation of echo chambers, which often lead to the spread of highly biased or uncredible news. We develop a method to identify communities within a social news website that are prone to uncredible or highly biased news. We employ a user embedding pipeline that detects user communities based on their stances towards posts and news sources. We then project each community onto a credibility-bias space and analyze the distributional characteristics of each projected community to identify those that have a high risk of adopting beliefs with low credibility or high bias. This approach also enables the prediction of individual users' susceptibility to low credibility content, based on their community affiliation. Our experiments show that latent space clusters effectively indicate the credibility and bias levels of their users, with significant differences observed across clusters -- a $34\%$ difference in the users' susceptibility to low-credibility content and a $8.3\%$ difference in the users' susceptibility to high political bias. |
| title | Susceptibility of Communities against Low-Credibility Content in Social News Websites |
| topic | Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10705 |