Search Results for author: Benjamin D. Horne

Found 11 papers, 4 papers with code

A Psycho-linguistic Analysis of BitChute

no code implementations17 Apr 2022 Benjamin D. Horne

In order to better support researchers, journalist, and practitioners in their use of the MeLa-BitChute dataset for exploration and investigative reporting, we provide new psycho-linguistic metadata for the videos, comments, and channels in the dataset using LIWC22.

The MeLa BitChute Dataset

no code implementations10 Feb 2022 Milo Trujillo, Maurício Gruppi, Cody Buntain, Benjamin D. Horne

In this paper we present a near-complete dataset of over 3M videos from 61K channels over 2. 5 years (June 2019 to December 2021) from the social video hosting platform BitChute, a commonly used alternative to YouTube.

Tell Me Who Your Friends Are: Using Content Sharing Behavior for News Source Veracity Detection

no code implementations15 Jan 2021 Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

Moreover, we show that the addition of CSN features increases the accuracy of writing style models, boosting accuracy as much as 14\% when using Random Forests.

Do All Good Actors Look The Same? Exploring News Veracity Detection Across The U.S. and The U.K

no code implementations26 May 2020 Benjamin D. Horne, Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adali

A major concern with text-based news veracity detection methods is that they may not generalize across countries and cultures.

NELA-GT-2019: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

2 code implementations18 Mar 2020 Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

In this paper, we present an updated version of the NELA-GT-2018 dataset (N{\o}rregaard, Horne, and Adal{\i} 2019), entitled NELA-GT-2019.

Computers and Society

NELA-GT-2018: A Large Multi-Labelled News Dataset for The Study of Misinformation in News Articles

no code implementations2 Apr 2019 Jeppe Norregaard, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

In this paper, we present a dataset of 713k articles collected between 02/2018-11/2018.

Computers and Society

Models for Predicting Community-Specific Interest in News Articles

no code implementations27 Aug 2018 Benjamin D. Horne, William Dron, Sibel Adali

To answer these questions, we compute well-studied content-based features on over 60K news articles from 4 communities on reddit. com.

An Exploration of Unreliable News Classification in Brazil and The U.S

no code implementations7 Jun 2018 Mauricio Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

Our results show that features related to the writing style were prominent in both data sets and, despite the language difference, some features have a universal behavior, being significant to both US and Brazilian news articles.

General Classification News Classification

Sampling the News Producers: A Large News and Feature Data Set for the Study of the Complex Media Landscape

1 code implementation27 Mar 2018 Benjamin D. Horne, William Dron, Sara Khedr, Sibel Adali

In this paper, we discuss the first release of the data set and demonstrate 4 use cases of the data and features: news characterization, engagement characterization, news attribution and content copying, and discovering news narratives.

Computers and Society

This Just In: Fake News Packs a Lot in Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar to Satire than Real News

2 code implementations28 Mar 2017 Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali

The problem of fake news has gained a lot of attention as it is claimed to have had a significant impact on 2016 US Presidential Elections.

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