Protecting the Web from Misinformation

Abstract

Nowadays, a huge part of the information present on the Web is delivered through Social Media and User-Generated Content (UGC) platforms, such as Quora, Wikipedia, YouTube, Yelp, Slashdot.org, Stack Overflow, Amazon product reviews, and much more. Here, many users create, manipulate, and consume content every day. Thanks to the mechanism by which anyone can edit these platforms, its content grows and is kept constantly updated. However, malicious users can take advantage of this open editing mechanism to introduce misinformation on the Web.