Published May 28, 2024 | Version v1
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HyperGraphDis: Leveraging Hypergraphs for Contextual and Social-Based Disinformation Detection

  • 1. ROR icon Cyprus University of Technology
  • 2. IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain
  • 3. LSTECH ESPANA SL, Barchelona, Spain

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In light of the growing impact of disinformation on social, economic, and political landscapes, accurate and efficient identification methods are increasingly critical. This paper introduces HyperGraphDis, a novel approach for detecting disinformation on Twitter that employs a hypergraph-based representation to capture (i) the intricate social structures arising from retweet cascades, (ii) relational features among users, and (iii) semantic and topical nuances. Evaluated on four Twitter datasets -- focusing on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic -- HyperGraphDis outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and computational efficiency, underscoring its effectiveness and scalability for tackling the challenges posed by disinformation dissemination. HyperGraphDis displays exceptional performance on a COVID-19-related dataset, achieving an impressive F1 score (weighted) of approximately 89.5%. This result represents a notable improvement of around 4% compared to the other state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, significant enhancements in computation time are observed for both model training and inference. In terms of model training, completion times are accelerated by a factor ranging from 2.3 to 7.6 compared to the second-best method across the four datasets. Similarly, during inference, computation times are 1.3 to 6.8 times faster than the state-of-the-art.

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European Commission
INCOGNITO - IdeNtity verifiCatiOn with privacy-preservinG credeNtIals for anonymous access To Online services 824015
European Commission
Mediterranean Digital Media Observatory (MedDMO) 101083756