Decaffe: DHT Tree-Based Online Federated Fake News Detection

Abstract

The proliferation of mobile social networks (MSNs) has transformed information dissemination, leading to increased reliance on these platforms for news consumption. However, this shift has been accompanied by the widespread propagation of fake news, posing significant challenges in terms of public panic, political influence, and the obscuring of truth. Traditional data processing pipelines for fake news detection in MSNs suffer from lengthy response times and poor scalability, failing to address the unique characteristics of news in MSNs, such as prompt propagation, large-scale quantity, and rapid evolution. This paper introduces a novel system named Decaffe - a DHT Tree-Based Online Federated Fake News Detection system. Decaffe leverages distributed hash table (DHT)-based aggregation trees for scalability and real-time detection, and it employs two model fine-tuning methods for adapting to mobile network dynamics. The system's structure includes a root, branches, and leaves for effective dissemination of a pre-trained model and ensemble-based aggregation of predictive results. Decaffe uniquely combines centralized server-based and decentralized serverless model fine-tuning approaches with personalized model fine-tuning, addressing the challenges of real-time detection, scalability, and adaptability in the dynamic environment of MSNs.