Identifying Nuances in Fake News vs. Satire: Using Semantic and Linguistic Cues

Understand

The blurry line between nefarious fake news and protected-speech satire has been a notorious struggle for social media platforms.

• Further to the efforts of reducing exposure to misinformation on social media, purveyors of fake news have begun to masquerade as satire sites to avoid being demoted.
• In this work, we address the challenge of automatically classifying fake news versus satire.
• Previous work have studied whether fake news and satire can be distinguished based on language differences.