A Framework to Support the Trust Process in News and Social Media

Abstract

Current society is heavily influenced by the spread of online information, containing all sorts of claims, commonly found in news stories, tweets, and social media postings. Depending on the user, they may be considered "true" or "false", according to the agent's trust on the claim. In this paper, we discuss the concept of content trust and trust process, and propose a framework to describe the trust process, which can support various possible models of content trust.