Newspaper Credibility

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Abstract
At present, with the current wide spread of information on the social media, the recipient or the researcher needs more details about the received information or spread, including the provenance. With the current explosion of the news websites, there is the question of credibility of news articles on the internet. It is important to know whether the news is correct or not. This paper focuses on identifying the provenance of news articles. Also, trace the provenance of news articles often to see where did the first publication of such news appear. Is the news publication true (the credibility of the news), or is the news quoting from the provenance of the news on the news website or was plagiarism and redistributed on news websites …show more content…

So, the users need to know more details of information about the news articles published, including the provenance and the personal attributes of the user, like name, sex, education, location and race [1]. Thus, the challenges and the main purpose for the users is the capability for tracing and detecting the reliability and truth of information from among thousands of results. Through help the readers to ensure the truthfulness of the news (the credibility of the news) through reading the news from news websites reliable. Also, check if the news website is plagiarized the news article and redistributed on the news websites on the Internet or quotes the news article from the news website provenance. Finally, identify whether a news website is the first publication of such news. While the provenance is not limited to determining the news articles, the heritage of the artwork, archeology, paleontology, archives, manuscripts, printed books and computing science, is valid too many areas to find out their provenance …show more content…

The provenance of an article can be defined as the information about the entities, activities and people involved in the production of a piece of data, and such can be used as information to evaluate the quality, reliability and confidence of the data [2]. "Provenance (also referred to as lineage, pedigree, parentage, genealogy, and filiation)" [3]. It can be described the provenance at different intervals depended on where it was used. Buneman et al [4] definition the provenance of the data through the database systems, as well as describing the provenance of data and processes that reach into the database. Greenwood et al [5] widen the definition of the provenance by recording workflow process through

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