Text Similarity Using Word Embeddings to Classify Misinformation

Abstract: Fake news is a growing problem in the last years, especially during elections. It's hard work to identify what is true and what is false among all the user generated content that circulates every day. Technology can help with that work and optimize the fact-checking process. In this work, we address the challenge of finding similar content in order to be able to suggest to a fact-checker articles that could have been verified before and thus avoid that the same information is verified more than once. This is especially important in collaborative approaches to fact-checking where members of large teams will not know what content others have already fact-checked.