Tracing fake news footprints: characterizing social media messages by how they propagate

This week we'll be looking at some of the papers from WSDM'18. To kick things off I've chosen a paper tackling the problem of detecting fake news on social media. One of the challenges here is that fake news messages (the better ones anyway), are crafted to look just like real news. So classifying messages based on their content can be difficult. The big idea in'Tracking fake news footprints' is that the way a message spreads through a network gives a strong indication of the kind of information it contains.