Detecting Clickbait Using User Emotions and Behaviors on Social Media

Arjun Kadian, Vivek Singh, Anol Bhattacherjee

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Abstract

Clickbait are tabloid news articles which lure online users to click on them, in turn increasing the click-through-rate of the landing page. We build an Emotional Classifier (EC) to detect clickbait articles by leveraging the users™ emotions and behaviors


Original languageAmerican English
JournalInternational Conference on Information Systems
StatePublished - Jan 1 2018
Externally publishedYes

Disciplines

  • Social Media
  • Computer Sciences
  • Library and Information Science

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