An organized review of key factors for fake news detection

Fake news in social media has quickly become one of the most discussed topics in today's society. With false information proliferating and causing a significant impact in the political, economical, and social domains, research efforts to analyze and automatically identify this type of content have being conducted in the past few years. In this paper, we attempt to summarize the principal findings on the topic of fake news in social media, highlighting the main research path taken and giving a particular focus on the detection of fake news and bot accounts.