MAPX: An explainable model-agnostic framework for the detection of false information on social media networks

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Autori principali: Condran, Sarah, Bewong, Michael, Kwashie, Selasi, Islam, Md Zahidul, Altas, Irfan, Condran, Joshua
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author Condran, Sarah
Bewong, Michael
Kwashie, Selasi
Islam, Md Zahidul
Altas, Irfan
Condran, Joshua
author_facet Condran, Sarah
Bewong, Michael
Kwashie, Selasi
Islam, Md Zahidul
Altas, Irfan
Condran, Joshua
contents The automated detection of false information has become a fundamental task in combating the spread of "fake news" on online social media networks (OSMN) as it reduces the need for manual discernment by individuals. In the literature, leveraging various content or context features of OSMN documents have been found useful. However, most of the existing detection models often utilise these features in isolation without regard to the temporal and dynamic changes oft-seen in reality, thus, limiting the robustness of the models. Furthermore, there has been little to no consideration of the impact of the quality of documents' features on the trustworthiness of the final prediction. In this paper, we introduce a novel model-agnostic framework, called MAPX, which allows evidence based aggregation of predictions from existing models in an explainable manner. Indeed, the developed aggregation method is adaptive, dynamic and considers the quality of OSMN document features. Further, we perform extensive experiments on benchmarked fake news datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of MAPX using various real-world data quality scenarios. Our empirical results show that the proposed framework consistently outperforms all state-of-the-art models evaluated. For reproducibility, a demo of MAPX is available at \href{https://github.com/SCondran/MAPX_framework}{this link}
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spellingShingle MAPX: An explainable model-agnostic framework for the detection of false information on social media networks
Condran, Sarah
Bewong, Michael
Kwashie, Selasi
Islam, Md Zahidul
Altas, Irfan
Condran, Joshua
Social and Information Networks
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
The automated detection of false information has become a fundamental task in combating the spread of "fake news" on online social media networks (OSMN) as it reduces the need for manual discernment by individuals. In the literature, leveraging various content or context features of OSMN documents have been found useful. However, most of the existing detection models often utilise these features in isolation without regard to the temporal and dynamic changes oft-seen in reality, thus, limiting the robustness of the models. Furthermore, there has been little to no consideration of the impact of the quality of documents' features on the trustworthiness of the final prediction. In this paper, we introduce a novel model-agnostic framework, called MAPX, which allows evidence based aggregation of predictions from existing models in an explainable manner. Indeed, the developed aggregation method is adaptive, dynamic and considers the quality of OSMN document features. Further, we perform extensive experiments on benchmarked fake news datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of MAPX using various real-world data quality scenarios. Our empirical results show that the proposed framework consistently outperforms all state-of-the-art models evaluated. For reproducibility, a demo of MAPX is available at \href{https://github.com/SCondran/MAPX_framework}{this link}
title MAPX: An explainable model-agnostic framework for the detection of false information on social media networks
topic Social and Information Networks
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08522