Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources

Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Dimitar Alexandrov, James Glass, Preslav Nakov
10/2/2018
cs.IRcs.LGstat.ML

Official code: ramybaly/News-Media-Reliability (61 stars, last commit 2021-05-12).

Abstract

We present a study on predicting the factuality of reporting and bias of news media. While previous work has focused on studying the veracity of claims or documents, here we are interested in characterizing entire news media. These are under-studied but arguably important research problems, both in their own right and as a prior for fact-checking systems. We experiment with a large list of news websites and with a rich set of features derived from (i) a sample of articles from the target news medium, (ii) its Wikipedia page, (iii) its Twitter account, (iv) the structure of its URL, and (v) information about the Web traffic it attracts. The experimental results show sizable performance gains over the baselines, and confirm the importance of each feature type.

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Cite this paper

@article{baly2018predicting,
  title  = {Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources},
  author = {Ramy Baly and Georgi Karadzhov and Dimitar Alexandrov and James Glass and Preslav Nakov},
  year   = {2018},
  eprint = {1810.01765},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01765}
}

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