TROPIC - Trustworthiness Rating of Online Publishers through online Interactions Calculation

TL;DR

This paper introduces TROPIC, a scalable system that assesses online news publisher trustworthiness using social media interactions, aiding organizations in classification and improving rating robustness.

Contribution

It presents a novel framework leveraging user interactions on social media to evaluate news publisher trustworthiness, addressing scalability and cost issues.

Findings

Provides trustworthiness ratings for unclassified publishers

Offers an interactive platform for annotation and robustness improvement

Demonstrates effectiveness on social media interaction data

Abstract

Existing methods for assessing the trustworthiness of news publishers face high costs and scalability issues. The tool presented in this paper supports the efforts of specialized organizations by providing a solution that, starting from an online discussion, provides (i) trustworthiness ratings for previously unclassified news publishers and (ii) an interactive platform to guide annotation efforts and improve the robustness of the ratings. The system implements a novel framework for assessing the trustworthiness of online news publishers based on user interactions on social media platforms.