The explosive growth of fake news has eroded the credibility of medias and governments. Fake news detection has become an urgent task. News articles along with other related components like news creators and news subjects can be modeled as a heterogeneous information network (HIN for short). In this paper, we focus on studying the HIN- based fake news detection problem. We propose a novel fake news detection framework, namely Hierarchical Graph Attention Network(HGAT) which employs a novel hierarchical attention mechanism to detect fake news by classifying news article nodes in the HIN. This method can effectively learn information from different types of related nodes through node-level and schema-level attention. Experiments with real-world fake news data show that our model can outperform text-based models and other network-based models. Besides, the experiments also demonstrate the expandability and potential of HGAT for heterogeneous graphs representation learning in the future .
The viral spread of fake news has caused great social harm, making fake news detection an urgent task. Current fake news detection methods rely heavily on text information by learning the extracted news content or writing style of internal knowledge. However, deliberate rumors can mask writing style, bypassing language models and invalidating simple text-based models. In fact, news articles and other related components (such as news creators and news topics) can be modeled as a heterogeneous information network (HIN for short). In this paper, we propose a novel fake news detection framework, namely Hierarchical Graph Attention Network(HGAT) , which uses a novel hierarchical attention mechanism to perform node representation learning in HIN, and then detects fake news by classifying news article nodes . Experiments on two real-world fake news datasets show that HGAT can outperform text-based models and other network-based models. In addition, the experiment proved the expandability and generalizability of our for graph representation learning and other node classification related applications in heterogeneous graphs .
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