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Differences between Health Related News Articles from Reliable and Unreliable Media

Social and Information Networks 2018-11-06 v1 Computers and Society

Abstract

In this study, we examine a collection of health-related news articles published by reliable and unreliable media outlets. Our analysis shows that there are structural, topical, and semantic differences in the way reliable and unreliable media outlets conduct health journalism. We argue that the findings from this study will be useful for combating health disinformation problem.

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@article{arxiv.1811.01852,
  title  = {Differences between Health Related News Articles from Reliable and Unreliable Media},
  author = {Sameer Dhoju and Md Main Uddin Rony and Naeemul Hassan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01852},
  year   = {2018}
}