SOCIAL

NETWORK POST
PROVENANCE
BY: MARYAM ABU SAFEIA
DR-MAJDI OWDA
In social media, information is often
transmitted and retransmitted from
one user to other users and from
one social media site to other social
media sites. Social media
propagates breaking news and
disinformation’s alike fast and on an
unsurpassed scale, there is no
means for a user to verify the
provenance of information. This
work aims to take advantage of
characteristics of social media to
provide a solution to the problem of
lacking traceable information. Such
information can provide additional
context to the received information 1.INTRODUCTION
so that a user can assess how
much value, trust, and validity
should be placed on it
An information
propagation process

• At time-step 1, node 1 tries to activate nodes 2 and

3. Suppose activation succeeds for node 3, but fails
for node 2. Next, infected nodes 1 and 3 will try to
activate neighboring susceptible nodes 2, 4, and 6.
Say, nodes 2 and 6 become infected, while node 4
remains susceptible to infection at the end of time-
step 2. At time-step 3, the infected set containing
nodes 1, 2, 3, and 6 tries to activate susceptible
neighboring nodes, including nodes 4, 5, and 7

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PROVENANCE ATTRIBUTES

What Are They? How do they solve the issues?

Additional attribute values of interest • Aides users to make better informed judgements
(provide more depth to user information) about an unfamiliar social media user’s motivations
• Associate attributes with originator of information:
user better informed

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Attributes

Demographic Attribute Specific (Political) Attribute

Formal name Formal name
Location Location
Occupation Occupation
Education Education
Age Age
  Employer
  Political affiliation
  Lobby affiliation
  Special interest
  conviction
  Citizenship
  Ethnicity
  Gender

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SEEKING PROVENANCE VIA NETWORK INFORMATION

• In the event that we want to access the original publication on social networking sites,
first searches are made to find the original on the same platform, and then compare the
results with other platforms.
• For example, if we want to access a political publication spread on the Facebook platform
that contains "the news of the murder of the American president," the search is done
within the Facebook platform based on the attributes of the users, as the post indicates a
political text, so the search is carried out between users with political attributes and those
who They have prior interests in this direction. After reaching more than one result among
users indicating that more than one user has published this text, the results are compared
with the times of publication, so that the oldest published may be the original in the
publication. After reaching one result on the Facebook platform, the result is compared
with the search results in the same way on platforms other than Facebook. And so on until
reaching the original publication, which is the same as the oldest at the time of
publication.

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Research Limitation and Challenges
the environment provides
social environment is dynamic social media is decentralized multiple modes of
communication

• more than 500 million • that information can be • profile updates, blog posts,
Facebook users, new content posted by almost anyone microblogs, instant
is generated on social media who chooses one or more messages, and videos
every day. social media platforms and
then transmitted across
• Consider that there are
disparate platforms to a
more than 40 million
multitude of recipients
microblogging messages
posted every day on the
popular Twitter site

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• Social media platforms allow users to share
their features with others on their own
Conclusion
pages, while allowing them the freedom to
hide it from everyone.

• It is still a challenge to use provenance

attributes in seeking the provenance of
information.

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