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# Paper Summary - A Topic-Agnostic Approach for Identifying Fake News Pages

Original Paper: [A Topic-Agnostic Approach for Identifying Fake News Pages](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00957)

# Intro

## Feature Types

- Morphological Features
- Words Count and repetitive patterns
- No semantic


- Psychological
- Related to emotion and hence ultimately to words semantic
- It requires a dictionary to get the semantic


- Readability
- Depends on the complexity of the language used which defines the target audience
- Based on specific patterns



## Textual Fake News Communication Patterns

From content perspective

- Focus on the headline which is
- Short
- Easy to read
- Emotional (contains emotional content)

- The body instead is typically
- Less informative or not informative at all
- Repetitive
- Confused
- Could also contradict the headline


From format / Web Page perspective

- Headline centric messy web page
- Full of Ads






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# Overview

Section related to Fake News Papers