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Fake news can significantly misinform people who often rely on online sources and social media for their information. Current research on fake news detection has mostly focused on analyzing fake news content and how it propagates on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Niraj Sitaula , Chilukuri K. Mohan , Jennifer Grygiel , Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

Fake news detection algorithms apply machine learning to various news attributes and their relationships. However, their success is usually evaluated based on how the algorithm performs on a static benchmark, independent of real users. On…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bruno Tafur , Advait Sarkar

The proliferation of online news enables potential widespread publication of perceived low-quality news headlines/links. As a result, we investigated whether it was possible to automatically distinguish perceived lower-quality news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Austin McCutcheon , Thiago E. A. de Oliveira , Aleksandr Zheleznov , Chris Brogly

The verification of multimedia content over social media is one of the challenging and crucial issues in the current scenario and gaining prominence in an age where user-generated content and online social web platforms are the leading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Deepika Varshney , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

We study the problem of finding fake online news. This is an important problem as news of questionable credibility have recently been proliferating in social media at an alarming scale. As this is an understudied problem, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Fake news detection research is still in the early stage as this is a relatively new phenomenon in the interest raised by society. Machine learning helps to solve complex problems and to build AI systems nowadays and especially in those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Sajjad Ahmed , Knut Hinkelmann , Flavio Corradini

Easier access to the internet and social media has made disseminating information through online sources very easy. Sources like Facebook, Twitter, online news sites and personal blogs of self-proclaimed journalists have become significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shaily Bhatt , Sakshi Kalra , Naman Goenka , Yashvardhan Sharma

Identifying the veracity of a news article is an interesting problem while automating this process can be a challenging task. Detection of a news article as fake is still an open question as it is contingent on many factors which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Gaurav Bhatt , Aman Sharma , Shivam Sharma , Ankush Nagpal , Balasubramanian Raman , Ankush Mittal

Misinformation posting and spreading in Social Media is ignited by personal decisions on the truthfulness of news that may cause wide and deep cascades at a large scale in a fraction of minutes. When individuals are exposed to information,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Giancarlo Ruffo , Alfonso Semeraro

In recent years there have been a growing interest in online auditing of information flow over social networks with the goal of monitoring undesirable effects, such as, misinformation and fake news. Most previous work on the subject, focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Daniel Toma , Wasim Huleihel

Among news disorders, propagandist news are particularly insidious, because they tend to mix oriented messages with factual reports intended to look like reliable news. To detect propaganda, extant approaches based on Language Models such…

Satirical news is considered to be entertainment, but it is potentially deceptive and harmful. Despite the embedded genre in the article, not everyone can recognize the satirical cues and therefore believe the news as true news. We observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Fan Yang , Arjun Mukherjee , Eduard Dragut

'Fake News' continues to undermine trust in modern journalism and politics. Despite continued efforts to study fake news, results have been conflicting. Previous attempts to analyse and combat fake news have largely focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Emilie Francis

Online users today are exposed to misleading and propagandistic news articles and media posts on a daily basis. To counter thus, a number of approaches have been designed aiming to achieve a healthier and safer online news and media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Seunghak Yu , Giovanni Da San Martino , Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass , Preslav Nakov

The detection of fake news often requires sophisticated reasoning skills, such as logically combining information by considering word-level subtle clues. In this paper, we move towards fine-grained reasoning for fake news detection by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yiqiao Jin , Xiting Wang , Ruichao Yang , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Hao Liao , Xing Xie

The spread of fake news has long been a social issue and the necessity of identifying it has become evident since its dangers are well recognized. In addition to causing uneasiness among the public, it has even more devastating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxuan Tian

The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers have made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources, thus increasing the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Bennett Kleinberg , Alexandra Lefevre , Rada Mihalcea

Quotes are critical for establishing credibility in news articles. A direct quote enclosed in quotation marks has a strong visual appeal and is a sign of a reliable citation. Unfortunately, this journalistic practice is not strictly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Seonyeong Song , Hyeonho Song , Kunwoo Park , Jiyoung Han , Meeyoung Cha

We propose the task of narrative incoherence detection as a new arena for inter-sentential semantic understanding: Given a multi-sentence narrative, decide whether there exist any semantic discrepancies in the narrative flow. Specifically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Deng Cai , Yizhe Zhang , Yichen Huang , Wai Lam , Bill Dolan

Newspapers are a popular form of written discourse, read by many people, thanks to the novelty of the information provided by the news content in it. A headline is the most widely read part of any newspaper due to its appearance in a bigger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Elizabeth Jasmi George , Radhika Mamidi