Hyperpartisan news detection

Detection and identification of hyperpartisan news—content that is extremely one-sided, inflammatory, and often from sources with strong political orientations. This differs from ordinary partisan reporting by degree of extremism and emotional framing.

Key papers and articles

• Potthast et al. (2017) — A Stylometric Inquiry into Hyperpartisan and Fake News: Stylometric analysis showing hyperpartisan news can be distinguished from mainstream via writing style (F1=0.78); introduces Unmasking for style category analysis