Is this the Era of Misinformation yet

• DOI: 10.1145/3184558.3191610
• Publication Date: 2018-04-18T18:04:25Z
• Authors: Patrick Wang; Rafael Angarita; Ilaria Renna
• Keywords: [INFO.INFO-AI] Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI]; ACM: H.: Information Systems/H.3: INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL/H.3.4: Systems and Software/H.3.4.1: Distributed systems; 02 engineering and technology; Internet communications tools; ACM: H.: Information Systems/H.3: INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL/H.3.5: Online Information Services/H.3.5.2: Web-based services; [INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Social networks; [INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI]; Social media; [INFO.INFO-CR]Computer Science [cs]/Cryptography and Security [cs.CR]; ACM: H.: Information Systems/H.1: MODELS AND PRINCIPLES/H.1.1: Systems and Information Theory/H.1.1.1: Information theory; [INFO.INFO-AU]Computer Science [cs]/Automatic Control Engineering; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; ACM: C.: Computer Systems Organization/C.2: COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS/C.2.4: Distributed Systems/C.2.4.1: Distributed applications; Semantic Web; [INFO.INFO-CR] Computer Science [cs]/Cryptography and Security [cs.CR]; ACM: H.: Information Systems/H.1: MODELS AND PRINCIPLES/H.1.2: User/Machine Systems; Deceptive information; Social bots; ACM: H.: Information Systems/H.4: INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS/H.4.3: Communications Applications; World Wide Web; [INFO.INFO-CL] Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Human-centered computing; [INFO.INFO-AU] Computer Science [cs]/Automatic Control Engineering

Social media is an amazing platform for enhancing public exposure. Anyone, even social bots, can reach out to a vast community and expose one's opinion. But what happens when fake news is (un)intentionally spread within a social media? This paper reviews techniques that can be used to fabricate fake news and depicts a scenario where social bots evolve in a fully semantic Web to infest social media with automatically generated deceptive information.