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A systematic review of automated hyperpartisan news detection.

Michele Joshua Maggini, Davide Bassi, Paloma Piot, Gaël Dias, Pablo Gamallo Otero

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5 authors.

Michele Joshua MagginiCentro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9230-9202
Davide BassiCentro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2025-6559
Paloma PiotIRLab, CITIC Research Centre, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Galiza, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7069-3389
Gaël DiasUniversité Caen Normandie, ENSICAEN, CNRS, Normandie Univ, GREYC UMR6072, F-14000 Caen, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5840-1603
Pablo Gamallo OteroCentro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5819-2469

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hyperpartisan news consists of articles with strong biases that support specific political parties. The spread of such news increases polarization among readers, which threatens social unity and democratic stability. Automated tools can help identify hyperpartisan news in the daily flood of articles, offering a way to tackle these problems. With recent advances in machine learning and deep learning, there are now more methods available to address this issue. This literature review collects and organizes the different methods used in previous studies on hyperpartisan news detection. Using the PRISMA methodology, we reviewed and systematized approaches and datasets from 81 articles published from January 2015 to 2024. Our analysis includes several steps: differentiating hyperpartisan news detection from similar tasks, identifying text sources, labeling methods, and evaluating models. We found some key gaps: there is no clear definition of hyperpartisanship in Computer Science, and most datasets are in English, highlighting the need for more datasets in minority languages. Moreover, the tendency is that deep learning models perform better than traditional machine learning, but Large Language Models' (LLMs) capacities in this domain have been limitedly studied. This paper is the first to systematically review hyperpartisan news detection, laying a solid groundwork for future research.

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