ANiTH: A Novel Intelligent Text Hiding Technique for Detecting Spurious Information on Social Media

Digital Watermarking is required in digital media where access to sensitive information has to be protected against malicious attacks. Since the digital text is one of most widely used digital media on the Internet, the significant part of Web sites, social media, articles, eBooks, and so on is only plain text. Thus, copyrights protection of plaintexts is still a remaining issue that must be improved to provide proof of ownership and obtain desirable accuracy of digital texts. In this research, we propose an intelligent watermarking technique called ANiTH which conceals an invisible watermark through a digital text such that the hidden watermark can be extracted whenever there is an inquiry about the accuracy and reliability of digital texts shared on social media. Experiments demonstrate that the ANiTH can reveal the authenticity and originality of digital texts on social media, where there is a doubt about the text content, whether malicious users have been manipulated it to make or redistribution of spurious information. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first intelligent text hiding technique that provides an invisible signature for detecting spurious information on social media.