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A P P E N D I X C
Relevant Activities
Fake news has been attracting interests from experts and practitioners of multiple disciplines.
Relevant activities are organized to advance the detection and mitigation of fake news. Specifi-
cally, we introduce these efforts in three general categories: Educational Programs, Computational
Competitions, and Research Workshops and Tutorials.
Educational Programs ese programs aim to help design and train interested people about
how to identify fake news. e educational programs include handbooks [56, 94], interactive
games. For example, in [56], the researchers from UNESCO
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build a series of curricula and
handbooks for journalism education and training. Similarly, a cookbook is built to help identify
fake news from the perspectives of transparency, engagement, education, and tools.
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Interactive
online programs are designed that encode some heuristic features of fake news detection to help
learn common tricks of identifying fake news via game playing. “Bad News”
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is an online game
that allows users to act as a fake news creator to build a fake “credibility” step by step.
Computational Competitions To encourage researchers or students to build computational
algorithms to address fake news problems, several competitions are organized online or in con-
junction with some conferences. For example, the fake news challenge
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aims to detect the stance
of pairs of headline and body text, which attracts many researchers to create effective solutions
to improve the performance [115, 124]. As another example, Bytedance organized a fake news
classification challenge in conjunction with the ACM WSDM conference,
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aiming to identify
if a given news pieces is related to another piece of fake news. Moreover, the SBP competition
on disinformation is regularly held to encourage researchers to combat fake news.
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Research Workshops and Tutorials To bring researchers and practitioners together to brain-
storm novel ways of dealing with fake news, different research workshops and tutorials are held
from various perspectives. One of the earliest and influential workshop [88] aims to define the
foundations, actions, and research directions on combating fake news. e social cyber-security
working group
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has brought together experts to deal with various cyber security threats on so-
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e United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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https://newscollab.org/best-practices/
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https://getbadnews.com/
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http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/
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https://www.kaggle.com/c/fake-news-pair-classification-challenge/
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http://sbp-brims.org/2019/challenge/challenge2_Disinformation.html
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https://sites.google.com/view/social-cybersec/
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cial media including disinformation and fake news. Recently, the National Academy of Sciences
Colloquia hosted a panel on the communication and science of misinformation and fake news.
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Several tutorials are offered in conjunction with top-tier conferences such as ACM KDD 2019,
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ACM WSDM 2019 [187], AAAI 2018,
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and IEEE ICDM 2017.
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For example, the tutorials
of KDD 2019 and WSDM 2019 focus on the fundamental theories, detection strategies, and
open issues, the AAAI 2018 tutorial discusses fake news from artificial intelligence and database
perspectives, and the ICDM 2017 tutorial presents the detection and spreading patterns of mis-
information on social media.
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http://www.cvent.com/events/advancing-the-science-and-practice-of-science-communication-
misinformation-about-science-in-the-publ/event-summary-c4d9df4d8baf4567ab82042e4f4efb78.aspx
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https://www.fake-news-tutorial.com/
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https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~nhassan/file/aaai2018tutorial.html
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http://www.public.asu.edu/~liangwu1/ICDM17MisinformationTutorial.html
