Electronic rumor cascade management in computer network communications

A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of controlling cascade of information transmitted and received via a data sharing platform over at least one communication network, comprising:

• determining that a message is to be shared;
• analyzing the message and corresponding message stream;
• queuing the message;
• and
• taking an action upon the message responsive to at least one criterion being met based on the analyzing, the action comprising at least forcing a fact check of the message that determines veracity of the message, and at least one of removing the message, disabling the message, allowing conditional sharing of the message, and allowing the message to be shared,
• the at least one criterion comprising at least determining a confidence value below a threshold value that indicates the message is non-factual,
• wherein spreading of information determined to be non-factual is reduced.

A system of controlling cascade of information transmitted and received via an online data sharing platform over a communication network, comprising:

• at least one hardware processor;
• a memory device coupled to the at least one hardware processor,
• the at least one hardware processor operable to determine that a message is to be shared, the at least one hardware processor further operable to analyze the message and corresponding message stream, the at least one hardware processor further operable to queue the message on the memory device, the at least one hardware processor further operable to take an action upon the message responsive at least one criterion being met based on the analyzing,
• the action comprising at least forcing a fact check of the message that determines veracity of the message, wherein the at least one hardware process associates a trust metric to an author of the message, and reduces the trust metric responsive to finding that the message comprises non-factual data, and reduces spreading of information determined to be non-factual.