Fake news detection is crucial for preventing the dissemination of
misinformation on social media. To differentiate fake news from real ones,
existing methods observe the language patterns of the news post and "zoom in"
to verify its content with knowledge sources or check its readers' replies.
However, these methods neglect the information in the external news environment
where a fake news post is created and disseminated. The news environment
represents recent mainstream media opinion and public attention, which is an
important inspiration of fake news fabrication because fake news is often
designed to ride the wave of popular events and catch public attention with
unexpected novel content for greater exposure and spread. To capture the
environmental signals of news posts, we "zoom out" to observe the news
environment and propose the News Environment Perception Framework (NEP). For
each post, we construct its macro and micro news environment from recent
mainstream news. Then we design a popularity-oriented and a novelty-oriented
module to perceive useful signals and further assist final prediction.
Experiments on our newly built datasets show that the NEP can efficiently
improve the performance of basic fake news detectors.

本文提出 News Environment Perception Framework（NEP）以捕捉假新闻发帖的环境信号，包括流行趋势和新颖性等，提高基本的假新闻检测器的性能。