­Background Classification of social media content is often regarded as a text categorization problem and mainly focuses on content features, such as words and hashtags. However, for many emerging applications like fake news and rumor detection, it is very challenging, if not impossible, to identify useful features based on message content. A key...

The immense growth of social media has shifted online platforms into effective resources for determining and categorizing potential customers. Relational learning (RL) adopts network connectivity and social media content to establish predictions about users. It uses the influences of social network structures and user content to model a supervised learning...