Event Based Rumor Detection on Social Media for Digital Forensics and Information Security

Abstract

Advancement in information technology such as social networking is on one side is powerful source of news and information and on other side have posed new challenges for those policing cybercrime. Cybercriminals and terrorists are spreading rumors that is unreal or even malicious information on social network which can bring massive panic and social unrest to our community. The rumor detection problem on social network has attracted considerable attention in recent years. A different type of rumors has different characteristics and need different techniques and approaches to detect. In this paper, we proposed an efficient approach to detect event based rumor on social media like Twitter. Experiment illustrates that our event based rumor detection method obtain significant improvement compared with the previous work.