Combating Fake News: A Data Management and Mining Perspective
Summary: Tutorial surveys fake-news detection, propagation, mitigation, and intervention across disciplines. It uniquely reframes database tools—truth discovery, data fusion, probabilistic databases, knowledge graphs, and crowdsourcing—as building blocks for combating disinformation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia)
- 2. Michael Simpson (University of British Columbia)
- 3. Saravanan Thirumuruganathan (Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Qatar Computing Research Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@article{lakshmanan_vldb19,
title = {{Combating Fake News: A Data Management and Mining Perspective}},
author = {Lakshmanan, Laks V.S. and Simpson, Michael and Thirumuruganathan, Saravanan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '19},
volume = {12},
number = {12},
pages = {1990--1993},
doi = {10.14778/3352063.3352117},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3352063.3352117},
year = {2019}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,449 | From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management | 2022 | VLDB | 6.697553e-05 |
| 11,663 | To Intervene or Not To Intervene: Cost based Intervention for Combating Fake News | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125 | Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage | 2005 | CIDR | 0.00030932014 |
| 890 | Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00013382697 |
| 917 | Data Integration: The Teenage Years | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00013224381 |
| 2,428 | ClaimBuster: The First-ever End-to-end Fact-checking System | 2017 | VLDB | 8.5897309e-05 |
| 4,033 | Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers | 2011 | CIDR | 6.9449851e-05 |
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