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GAMC: An Unsupervised Method for Fake News Detection using Graph Autoencoder with Masking
Shu Yin, Chao GAO, Zhen Wang
With the rise of social media, the spread of fake news has become a significant concern, potentially misleading public perceptions and impacting social stability. Although deep learning methods like CNNs, RNNs, and Transformer-based models like BERT have enhanced fake news detection, they primarily focus on content, overlooking social context during news propagation. Graph-based techniques have incorporated this social context but are limited by the need for large labeled datasets. Addressing these challenges, this paper introduces GAMC, an unsupervised fake news detection technique using the Graph Autoencoder with Masking and Contrastive learning. By leveraging both the context and content of news propagation as self-supervised signals, our method negates the requirement for labeled datasets. We augment the original news propagation graph, encode these with a graph encoder, and employ a graph decoder for reconstruction. A unique composite loss function, including reconstruction error and contrast loss, is designed. The method's contributions are: introducing self-supervised learning to fake news detection, proposing a graph autoencoder integrating two distinct losses, and validating our approach's efficacy through real-world dataset experiments.
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