A model to measure the spread power of rumors

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With technologies that have democratized the production and reproduction of information, a signifcant portion of daily interacted posts in social media has been infected by rumors. Despite the extensive research on rumor detection and verifcation, so far, the problem of calculating the spread power of rumors has not been considered. To address this research gap, the present study seeks a model to calculate the Spread Power of Rumor (SPR) as the function of content-based features in two categories: False Rumor (FR) and True Rumor (TR). For this purpose, the theory of Allport and Postman will be ...Daha fazlası