FakeSens: A Social Sensing Approach to COVID-19 Misinformation Detection on Social Media

Social sensing is emerging as an effective and pervasive sensing paradigm to collect timely data and observations from human sensors. This paper focuses on the problem of COVID-19 misinformation detection on social media. Our work is motivated by the lack of COVID-specific knowledge in current misinformation detection solutions, which is critical to assess the truthfulness of social media claims a...