{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/this-just-in-fake-news-packs-a-lot-in-title","title":"This Just In: Fake News Packs a Lot in Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar to Satire than Real News","arxiv_id":"1703.09398","date":"2017-03-28","proceeding":null,"authors":["Benjamin D. Horne","Sibel Adali"],"abstract":"The problem of fake news has gained a lot of attention as it is claimed to\nhave had a significant impact on 2016 US Presidential Elections. Fake news is\nnot a new problem and its spread in social networks is well-studied. Often an\nunderlying assumption in fake news discussion is that it is written to look\nlike real news, fooling the reader who does not check for reliability of the\nsources or the arguments in its content. Through a unique study of three data\nsets and features that capture the style and the language of articles, we show\nthat this assumption is not true. Fake news in most cases is more similar to\nsatire than to real news, leading us to conclude that persuasion in fake news\nis achieved through heuristics rather than the strength of arguments. We show\noverall title structure and the use of proper nouns in titles are very\nsignificant in differentiating fake from real. This leads us to conclude that\nfake news is targeted for audiences who are not likely to read beyond titles\nand is aimed at creating mental associations between entities and claims.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09398v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.09398v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"this-just-in-fake-news-packs-a-lot-in-title","repo_url":"https://github.com/rpitrust/fakenewsdata1","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"this-just-in-fake-news-packs-a-lot-in-title","repo_url":"https://github.com/mansoor9743/Fake-News-Detection","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"articles","task_name":"Articles"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"horne-2017-fake-news-data","name":"Horne 2017 Fake News Data","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1703.09398","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}