Individuals can be misled by fake news and spread it unintentionally without knowing it is false. This phenomenon has been frequently observed but has not been investigated. Our aim in this work is to assess the intent of fake news spreaders. To distinguish between intentional versus unintentional spreading, we study the psychological explanations of unintentional spreading. With this foundation, we then propose an influence graph, using which we assess the intent of fake news spreaders. Our extensive experiments show that the assessed intent can help significantly differentiate between intentional and unintentional fake news spreaders. Furthermore, the estimated intent can significantly improve the current techniques that detect fake news. To our best knowledge, this is the first work to model individuals' intent in fake news spreading.

翻译：个人可能会被假新闻误导,并在不知道假新闻的情况下被无意传播。 这种现象已经经常被观察到,但尚未被调查。 我们这项工作的目的是评估假新闻传播者的意图。 为了区分有意传播和无意传播, 我们研究了无意传播的心理解释。 有了这个基础, 我们然后提出了一个影响图, 用来评估假新闻传播者的意图。 我们的广泛实验显示, 评估的意图可以帮助区分有意传播和无意传播的新闻传播者。 此外, 估计的意图可以大大改进目前侦测假新闻的技术。 据我们所知, 这是在假新闻传播中模拟个人意图的第一个工作。