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Mechanisms to Discover the Real News on the Internet

Authors:
Yuta Nemoto
Vitaly Klyuev

Keywords: Internet; fake news; metasearch; Web; development

Abstract:
Over the last decade, news media on the Internet have been developing at a high pace. The latest advances in information technology have helped to influence the growth of the number of people searching for information from their mobile devices. On the other hand, the risk of incorrect or false information spreading has also become higher. This problem is serious on social media and users need to distinguish between what is true and what is false. Meaningful tools to support them are strongly demanded in today’s society. In this paper, we discuss the implementation of a tool that helps users find real news on the Internet. The key feature is to encourage users to look at the information from an objective perspective. To achieve this, an approach based on the idea of the “metasearch engine” can be applied. Although the popularity of this instrument has declined since the rise of Google, the mechanism itself is effective in preserving the neutrality of search results.

Pages: 54 to 58

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: March 22, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-760-3

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 25, 2020