Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2023

Abstract

Online platforms are experimenting with interventions such as content screening to moderate the effects of fake, biased, and incensing content. Yet, online platforms face an operational challenge in implementing machine learning algorithms for managing online content due to the labeling problem, where labeled data used for model training are limited and costly to obtain. To address this issue, we propose a domain adaptive transfer learning via adversarial training approach to augment fake content detection with collective human intelligence. We first start with a source domain dataset containing deceptive and trustworthy general news constructed from a large collection of labeled news sources based on human judgments and opinions. We then extract discriminating linguistic features commonly found in source domain news using advanced deep learning models. We transfer these features associated with the source domain to augment fake content detection in three target domains: political news, financial news, and online reviews. We show that domain invariant linguistic features learned from a source domain with abundant labeled examples can effectively improve fake content detection in a target domain with very few or highly unbalanced labeled data. We further show that these linguistic features offer the most value when the level of transferability between source and target domains is relatively high. Our study sheds light on the platform operation in managing online content and resources when applying machine learning for fake content detection. We also outline a modular architecture that can be adopted in developing content screening tools in a wide spectrum of fields.

Keywords

adversarial domain adaptation, augmented AI, deception detection, fake news, transfer learning

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | E-Commerce

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Production and Operations Management

First Page

1

Last Page

22

ISSN

1059-1478

Identifier

10.1111/poms.13959

Publisher

Wiley

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13959

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