
Clickbaits, in social media, are exaggerated headlines whose main motive is to mislead the reader to “click” on them. They create a nuisance in the online experience by creating a lure towards poor content. Online content creators are utilizing more of them to get increased page views and thereby more ad revenue without providing the backing content. This paper proposes a model for detection of clickbait by utilizing convolutional neural networks and presents a compiled clickbait corpus. We create a corpus using multiple social media platforms and utilize deep learning for learning features rather than undergoing the long and complex process of feature engineering. Our model achieves high performance in identification of clickbaits.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 52 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 1% | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Top 10% | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% |
