Limiting the Spread of Fake News on Social Networks by Users as Witnesses

Hamouma Moumen; Badreddine Benreguia; Ahcene Bounceur; Leila Saadi

doi:10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217907

Limiting the Spread of Fake News on Social Networks by Users as Witnesses

Hamouma Moumen
, Badreddine Benreguia
, Ahcene Bounceur
, Leila Saadi

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

In this paper, we study how users can act as witnesses to limit the spread of fake news. We present a new technique based on consulting a set of users, called witnesses. Before resharing a content M by a user A, a set of k users (witnesses) are selected randomly, by the system, from the friends set of A. Witnesses are asked to validate the content M after allowing the user A to re-share it. If there is an authenticated user AU, among this set of witnesses that validating M, the user A is allowed to re-share it without considering the others (k-1) responses. In the case where all witnesses are non-Authenticated, if at least one witness rejects the content M, the user A is not allowed to re-share it. Note that A has no knowledge about the set of selected witnesses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ISCC 2023 - 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Subtitle of host publication	Computers and Communications for the Benefits of Humanity
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	663-668
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350300482
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217907
State	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2023 - Hybrid, Gammarth, Tunisia Duration: 9 Jul 2023 → 12 Jul 2023

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Volume	2023-July
ISSN (Print)	1530-1346

Conference

Conference	28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2023
Country/Territory	Tunisia
City	Hybrid, Gammarth
Period	9/07/23 → 12/07/23

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.

Keywords

Spread
fake news
social networks
witness user

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
General Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Computer Networks and Communications

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Moumen, H., Benreguia, B., Bounceur, A., & Saadi, L. (2023). Limiting the Spread of Fake News on Social Networks by Users as Witnesses. In ISCC 2023 - 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications: Computers and Communications for the Benefits of Humanity (pp. 663-668). (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications; Vol. 2023-July). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217907

Moumen, Hamouma ; Benreguia, Badreddine ; Bounceur, Ahcene et al. / Limiting the Spread of Fake News on Social Networks by Users as Witnesses. ISCC 2023 - 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications: Computers and Communications for the Benefits of Humanity. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. pp. 663-668 (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications).

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Moumen, H, Benreguia, B, Bounceur, A & Saadi, L 2023, Limiting the Spread of Fake News on Social Networks by Users as Witnesses. in ISCC 2023 - 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications: Computers and Communications for the Benefits of Humanity. Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, vol. 2023-July, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 663-668, 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2023, Hybrid, Gammarth, Tunisia, 9/07/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10217907

Limiting the Spread of Fake News on Social Networks by Users as Witnesses. / Moumen, Hamouma; Benreguia, Badreddine; Bounceur, Ahcene et al.
ISCC 2023 - 28th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications: Computers and Communications for the Benefits of Humanity. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. p. 663-668 (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications; Vol. 2023-July).

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Limiting the Spread of Fake News on Social Networks by Users as Witnesses

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