We model the spread of news as a social learning game on a network. Agents can either endorse or oppose a claim made in a piece of news, which itself may be either true or false. Agents base their decision on a private signal and their neighbors’ past actions. Given these inputs, agents follow strategies derived via multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and receive utility from acting in acco...

We investigated the differential diffusion of all of the verified true and false news stories distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. The data comprise ~126,000 stories tweeted by ~3 million people more than 4.5 million times. We classified news as true or false using information from six independent fact-checking organizations that exhibited 95 to 98% agreement on the classifications. Falseh...

background: the manner in which healthcare professionals deliver bad news affects the way it is received, interpreted, understood, and dealt with. despite the fact that clinicians are responsible for breaking bad news, it has been shown that they lack skills necessary to perform this task. objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore iranian mothers’ experiences to receive bad news abou...

Newspaper websites and news aggregators rank news stories by their newsworthiness in real-time for display to the user. Recent work has shown that news stories can be ranked automatically in a retrospective manner based upon related discussion within the blogosphere. However, it is as yet undetermined whether blogs are sufficiently fresh to rank stories in real-time. In this paper, we propose a...

In this study, we looked at the effect of promotion in the speed and width of spread of information on the Internet by tracking the diffusion of news articles over a social network. Speed of spread means the number of readers that the news has reached in a given time, while width of spread means how far the story has travelled from the news originator within the social network. After analyzing ...

how does a journalist or an editor decide which news is worthy and which is not? according to some media researchers, they refer to a set of news values. one of the best known lists of such news values have been supplied by johan galtung and marie h. ruge. an analytical discussion on news values always refers to this list, which initially intended to cover international events. these factors i...

The press in performing its functions can not be separated from all acts of fraud and irregularities committed by the subjects both public, (journalists, media, council, etc.), even government. Criminal law has two main elements namely, first is existence a norm, which prohibition or order (rule). Second, sanctions for violations norm form threats with criminal law. This research aims: 1) to an...

The number of microblogs’ user is growing rapidly with the increase of spam. Firstly, we give microblog a formal definition, and then divide spam into two types: news and advertisements. We collect 1,760,314 items of 188MB microblog news to complete the process of content mining. Using ROST Content Mining, we work on topology macro statistics, time series mining, and so on. We find that the gro...

information dissemination throughout the society is carried out by a phenomenon called news. this phenomenon is in relation to various social institutions as well as different aspects of people’s lives. in the present article, the writers believe that, firstly, the phenomenon of news, despite the operations carried out to disseminate and present it, has material value and that its economic valu...