@inProceedings{francis-2024-variation-342620, title = {Variation between Credible and Non-Credible News Across Topics}, abstract = {‘Fake News’ continues to undermine trust in modern journalism and politics. Despite con- tinued efforts to study fake news, results have been conflicting. Previous attempts to analyse and combat fake news have largely focused on distinguishing fake news from truth, or differ- entiating between its various sub-types (such as propaganda, satire, misinformation, etc.) This paper conducts a linguistic and stylistic analy- sis of fake news, focusing on variation between various news topics. It builds on related work identifying features from discourse and linguis- tics in deception detection by analysing five distinct news topics: Economy, Entertainment, Health, Science, and Sports. The results em- phasize that linguistic features vary between credible and deceptive news in each domain and highlight the importance of adapting clas- sification tasks to accommodate variety-based stylistic and linguistic differences in order to achieve better real-world performance.}, booktitle = {The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security}, author = {Francis, Emilie}, year = {2024}, publisher = {NLPAICS’2024}, address = {Lancaster, U.K.}, pages = {86--96}, }