News Source Credibility Assessment: A Reddit Case Study

arXiv:2402.10938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the era of social media platforms, identifying the credibility of online content is crucial to combat misinformation. We present the CREDiBERT (CREDibility assessment using Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers), a source credibility assessment model fine-tuned for Reddit submissions focusing on political discourse as the main contribution. We adopt a semi-supervised training approach for CREDiBERT, leveraging Reddit's community-based structure. By encoding submission content using CREDiBERT and integrating it into a Siamese neural network, we significantly …

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