Techniques are presented for providing misinformation detection in online content. The described techniques can identify instances of misinformation in online content and pass a misinformation result to the user. A misinformation probability analysis can be performed by applying a syntactic analysis and a semantic analysis to detect misinformation with confidence by applying featurization to a URL, text of content referenced by the URL, and metadata associated with the URL using a feature set, the feature set comprising semantic-based features and syntactic-based features, wherein the semantic features and the syntactic features are selected from the group consisting of: sentiment amplifiers, sentiment continuity disruption features, lexical features, keywords, baseline features, speech act, sensicon features, emotion detection on the obtained text, exaggerated language, strong adjectives, heuristics, bag-of-words, objectivity, colloquial -ness score, and semantic difference.
MISINFORMATION DETECTION IN ONLINE CONTENT