Nevertheless, while linguistics features seem promising, we argue that future efforts on misinformation detection should not be limited to these and should also include meta features (e.g., number of links to and from an article, comments on the article), features from different modalities (e.g., the visual makeup of a website using computer vision approaches), and embrace the increasing potential of computational approaches to fact verification (Thorne et al., 2018).
future work might want to explore how hybrid decision models consisting of both fact verification and data-driven machine learning judgments can be integrated.