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The Rise and Fall of Fake News sites: A Traffic Analysis

16 March 2021
Manolis Chalkiadakis
Alexandros Kornilakis
P. Papadopoulos
E. Markatos
N. Kourtellis
    GNN
    MLAU
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Abstract

Over the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of misinformation on the Internet, with online users constantly falling victims of fake news. A multitude of past studies have analyzed fake news diffusion mechanics and detection and mitigation techniques. However, there are still open questions about their operational behavior such as: How old are fake news websites? Do they typically stay online for long periods of time? Do such websites synchronize with each other their up and down time? Do they share similar content through time? Which third-parties support their operations? How much user traffic do they attract, in comparison to mainstream or real news websites? In this paper, we perform a first of its kind investigation to answer such questions regarding the online presence of fake news websites and characterize their behavior in comparison to real news websites. Based on our findings, we build a content-agnostic ML classifier for automatic detection of fake news websites (i.e. accuracy) that are not yet included in manually curated blacklists.

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