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Privacy and Security in Online Social Media · Quiz 1 · 27 Oct 2024 · September 2024 term

Question 1: Objective Type Question (1 mark each) Which of the follow…

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Objective Type Question (1 mark each)

  1. Which of the following is not a type of fake news? (MCQ)
    A) News Satire
    B) News Parody
    C) News Distortion
    D) News Fabrication

  2. Which centrality measure in a social network analysis is used to identify nodes that act as bridges between different parts of the network? (MCQ)
    A) Degree Centrality
    B) Closeness Centrality
    C) Betweenness Centrality
    D) Eigenvector Centrality

  3. What is the 'Implied Truth Effect' in the context of misinformation? (MCQ)
    A) The tendency to believe true information as false due to frequent exposure.
    B) The tendency to believe false information to be true after repeated exposure.
    C) The assumption that all information on the internet is true.
    D) The tendency to doubt all forms of digital content.

  4. What are the various methods that can be used to identify fake news? (Select all that apply) (MSQ)
    A) Checking the source
    B) Evaluating the images
    C) Sharing the content on social media
    D) Looking for other credible sources publishing the same content

  5. What is the primary purpose of using an Application Programming Interface (API) for social media data collection? (MCQ)
    A) To enhance data security
    B) To automate interactions and access structured data from platforms
    C) To prevent access to platform data
    D) To avoid rate limits

  6. ..........is the degree to which data can be trusted. (Fill in the blanks)

  7. During which stage of the BERT model lifecycle are parameters initially adjusted by looping over large datasets? (MCQ)
    A) Fine-tuning
    B) Production use
    C) Pre-training
    D) Encoding new documents

  8. Which of the following apps/website works similar to KOO? (MCQ)
    A) LinkedIn
    B) Bumble
    C) Twitter
    D) Whisper

  9. Name different libraries used for crawling data from the web?

  10. What is IFCN?

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Question 1 of 3 in the IIT Madras BS Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM) Quiz 1 paper sat on 27 Oct 2024, in the September 2024 term (IIT M DEGREE AN EXAM QDB2 27 Oct 2024). It carries 10 marks.

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