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The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a severe societal problem, raising significant interest from industry and academia. While existing deep-learning based methods have made progress in detecting fake news accurately, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoru Li , Haoliang Li

Social networks offer a ready channel for fake and misleading news to spread and exert influence. This paper examines the performance of different reputation algorithms when applied to a large and statistically significant portion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , Gabriele Ballarin , Stefano Moret , Massimo Di Pierro , Eugenio Tacchini , Marco L. Della Vedova

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate an impressive capacity to recall a vast range of factual knowledge. However, understanding their underlying reasoning and internal mechanisms in exploiting this knowledge remains a key research area.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Marco Bronzini , Carlo Nicolini , Bruno Lepri , Jacopo Staiano , Andrea Passerini

The widespread of fake news and misinformation in various domains ranging from politics, economics to public health has posed an urgent need to automatically fact-check information. A recent trend in fake news detection is to utilize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee

The recent explosion of false claims in social media and on the Web in general has given rise to a lot of manual fact-checking initiatives. Unfortunately, the number of claims that need to be fact-checked is several orders of magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Dimitrina Zlatkova , Preslav Nakov , Ivan Koychev

The rapid development of social platforms exacerbates the dissemination of misinformation, which stimulates the research in fact verification. Recent studies tend to leverage semantic features to solve this problem as a single-hop task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Han Cao , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

In this paper, we explore the problem of Claim Extraction using one-to-many text generation methods, comparing LLMs, small summarization models finetuned for the task, and a previous NER-centric baseline QACG. As the current publications on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Herbert Ullrich , Tomáš Mlynář , Jan Drchal

Detecting whether a news article is fake or genuine is a crucial task in today's digital world where it's easy to create and spread a misleading news article. This is especially true of news stories shared on social media since they don't…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Shashank Gupta , Raghuveer Thirukovalluru , Manjira Sinha , Sandya Mannarswamy

This paper explores an automatic news generation and fact-checking system based on language processing, aimed at enhancing the efficiency and quality of news production while ensuring the authenticity and reliability of the news content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Xirui Peng , Qiming Xu , Zheng Feng , Haopeng Zhao , Lianghao Tan , Yan Zhou , Zecheng Zhang , Chenwei Gong , Yingqiao Zheng

The volume and velocity of information that gets generated online limits current journalistic practices to fact-check claims at the same rate. Computational approaches for fact checking may be the key to help mitigate the risks of massive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Prashant Shiralkar , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer , Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

Researchers have found that fake news spreads much times faster than real news. This is a major problem, especially in today's world where social media is the key source of news for many among the younger population. Fact verification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Suryavardan Suresh , Anku Rani , Parth Patwa , Aishwarya Reganti , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das , Amit Sheth , Asif Ekbal

The detection of manipulated content, a prevalent form of fake news, has been widely studied in recent years. While existing solutions have been proven effective in fact-checking and analyzing fake news based on historical events, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mark Huasong Meng , Ruizhe Wang , Meng Xu , Chuan Yan , Guangdong Bai

Fact-checking is a potentially useful application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to combat the growing dissemination of disinformation. However, the performance of LLMs varies across geographic regions. In this paper, we evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bruno Coelho , Shujaat Mirza , Yuyuan Cui , Christina Pöpper , Damon McCoy

With the widespread use of the internet and handheld devices, social media now holds a power similar to that of old newspapers. People use social media platforms for quick and accessible information. However, this convenience comes with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Maria-Diana Cotelin , Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

Fact-checking data claims requires data evidence retrieval and analysis, which can become tedious and intractable when done manually. This work presents Aletheia, an automated fact-checking prototype designed to facilitate data claims…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yu Fu , Shunan Guo , Jane Hoffswell , Victor S. Bursztyn , Ryan Rossi , John Stasko

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) store structured factual knowledge by linking entities through relationships, crucial for many applications. These applications depend on the KG's factual accuracy, so verifying facts is essential, yet challenging.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Farzad Shami , Stefano Marchesin , Gianmaria Silvello

The expansion of online social media platforms has led to a surge in online content consumption. However, this has also paved the way for disseminating false claims and misinformation. As a result, there is an escalating demand for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Megha Sundriyal , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Long-form generations from large language models (LLMs) contain a mix of factual and non-factual claims, making evaluating factuality difficult. Prior works evaluate the factuality of a long paragraph by decomposing it into multiple facts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng-Han Chiang , Hung-yi Lee

Automated fact-checking is often presented as an epistemic tool that fact-checkers, social media consumers, and other stakeholders can use to fight misinformation. Nevertheless, few papers thoroughly discuss how. We document this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Michael Schlichtkrull , Nedjma Ousidhoum , Andreas Vlachos

The rapid proliferation of misinformation across online platforms underscores the urgent need for robust, up-to-date, explainable, and multilingual fact-checking resources. However, existing datasets are limited in scope, often lacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Z. Melce Hüsünbeyi , Virginie Mouilleron , Leonie Uhling , Daniel Foppe , Tatjana Scheffler , Djamé Seddah