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Rumor is a currently trending topic which contains an unverified content. This content may be either wrong information (misinformation) or intentionally wrong information (disinformation) [31]. Social media is capable of diffusing the information rapidly in the network as these rumors are also disseminated over the network. Some people may not know the difference between rumor and fact and may share the same rumor to other communities.

It is observed that rumors (about politics, religions, communities, etc.) diffuse very fast when compared to normal news. Thus, it is important to stop diffusion of rumors in social media, which requires detecting whether the information is rumor or not. Nowadays, rumor detection becomes a challenging task and many researchers are working on it. How a information can be classified rumor or non-rumor is shown in Figure 1.2. The figure shows how a rumor is classified as true or false and if it is false how it is classified as misinformation or disinformation.