The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and the lack of awareness of the existence of such false information. In this paper, we present an overview of the techniques explored to date for the combating of disinformation with various forms. We introduce different forms of disinformation, discuss factors related to the spread of disinformation, elaborate on the inherent challenges in detecting disinformation, and show some approaches to mitigating disinformation via education, research, and collaboration. Looking ahead, we present some promising future research directions on disinformation.
@article{arxiv.2007.07388,
title = {Combating Disinformation in a Social Media Age},
author = {Kai Shu and Amrita Bhattacharjee and Faisal Alatawi and Tahora Nazer and Kaize Ding and Mansooreh Karami and Huan Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.07388},
year = {2020}
}