Rumor Spreading: A Survey

Abstract

It is the key factor to restrain rumor spreading, purify the environment of network and promote network harmony that deep studying the rumor spreading. The paper first discussed the serious harmfulness of rumor spreading to society. Then, from the social media types, model research methods, model structure, research theory and whether the relationship considered the trust, the paper made the classified research and discussion of the network dissemination; finally, the paper made a prospect of the future research of rumor spreading and put forward some further research ideas.