In recent years, the social networks that have become most exploited sources of information, such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter, have been considered the main sources of non-credible information. False information on these social networks has a negative impact on the credibility of conversations. In this article, we propose a new deep learning-based credibility conversation detection approach in social network environments, called CreCDA. CreCDA is based on: (i) the combination of post and user features in order to detect credible and non-credible conversations; (ii) the integration of multi-dense layers to represent features more deeply and to improve the results; (iii) sentiment calculation based on the aggregation of tweets. In order to study the performance of our approach, we have used the standard PHEME dataset. We compared our approach with the main approaches we have studied in the literature. The results of this evaluation show the effectiveness of sentiment analysis and the combination of text and user levels to analyze conversation credibility. We recorded the mean precision of credible and non-credible conversations at 79%, the mean recall at 79%, the mean F1-score at 79%, the mean accuracy at 81%, and the mean G-Mean at 79%.
Keywords: Credibility detection; Deep learning; Post features; Sentiment analysis; Twitter conversation; User features.
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