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Do Fake News Between Different Languages Talk Alike? A Case Study of COVID-19 Related Fake News

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Social media fuels fake news’ spread across the world. English news has dominated existing fake news research, and how fake news in different languages compares remains severely under studied. To address this scarcity of literature, this research examines the content and linguistic behaviors of fake news in relation to COVID-19. The comparisons reveal both differences and similarities between English and Spanish fake news. The findings have implications for global collaboration in combating fake news.

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This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation [Award #s: CNS 1917537 and SES 1912898] and the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the above funding agency.

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    Lina Zhou & Dongsong Zhang

  2. Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, 06824, USA

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Zhou, L., Tao, J., Lai, E., Zhang, D. (2022). Do Fake News Between Different Languages Talk Alike? A Case Study of COVID-19 Related Fake News. In: Krishnan, R., Rao, H.R., Sahay, S.K., Samtani, S., Zhao, Z. (eds) Secure Knowledge Management In The Artificial Intelligence Era. SKM 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97532-6_11

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