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News in social media such as Twitter has been generated in high volume and speed. However, very few of them can be labeled (as fake or true news) in a short time. In order to achieve timely detection of fake news in social media, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Xishuang Dong , Uboho Victor , Shanta Chowdhury , Lijun Qian

The proliferation of fake news poses a serious threat to society, as it can misinform and manipulate the public, erode trust in institutions, and undermine democratic processes. To address this issue, we present FakeSwarm, a fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jun Wu , Xuesong Ye

Recent years have witnessed the significant damage caused by various types of fake news. Although considerable effort has been applied to address this issue and much progress has been made on detecting fake news, most existing approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yi Han , Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

This study aims to minimize the influence of fake news on social networks by deploying debunkers to propagate true news. This is framed as a reinforcement learning problem, where, at each stage, one user is selected to propagate true news.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xiaofei Xu , Ke Deng , Michael Dann , Xiuzhen Zhang

Modern social media platforms play an important role in facilitating rapid dissemination of information through their massive user networks. Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mor Oren-Loberman , Vered Azar , Wasim Huleihel

The wide spread of fake news in social networks is posing threats to social stability, economic development and political democracy etc. Numerous studies have explored the effective detection approaches of online fake news, while few works…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Bin Guo , Yasan Ding , Yueheng Sun , Shuai Ma , Ke Li

Fake news spread widely on social media in various domains, which lead to real-world threats in many aspects like politics, disasters, and finance. Most existing approaches focus on single-domain fake news detection (SFND), which leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Qiong Nan , Juan Cao , Yongchun Zhu , Yanyan Wang , Jintao Li

The blooming of fake news on social networks has devastating impacts on society, economy, and public security. Although numerous studies are conducted for the automatic detection of fake news, the majority tend to utilize deep neural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yasan Ding , Bin Guo , Yan Liu , Yunji Liang , Haocheng Shen , Zhiwen Yu

Making disguise between real and fake news propagation through online social networks is an important issue in many applications. The time gap between the news release time and detection of its label is a significant step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Maryam Ramezani , Mina Rafiei , Soroush Omranpour , Hamid R. Rabiee

Social media is accompanied by an increasing proportion of content that provides fake information or misleading content, known as information disorder. In this paper, we study the problem of multimodal fake news detection on a largescale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Armin Kirchknopf , Djordje Slijepcevic , Matthias Zeppelzauer

Disinformation has long been regarded as a severe social problem, where fake news is one of the most representative issues. What is worse, today's highly developed social media makes fake news widely spread at incredible speed, bringing in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Hao Liao , Qixin Liu , Kai Shu , Xing xie

With the rapid evolution of social media, fake news has become a significant social problem, which cannot be addressed in a timely manner using manual investigation. This has motivated numerous studies on automating fake news detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

Disinformation through fake news is an ongoing problem in our society and has become easily spread through social media. The most cost and time effective way to filter these large amounts of data is to use a combination of human and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Harm de Wet , Vukosi Marivate

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have enabled connection and communication on a large scale. It has revolutionized the rate at which information is shared and enhanced its reach. However, another side of the coin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Apurva Wani , Isha Joshi , Snehal Khandve , Vedangi Wagh , Raviraj Joshi

To curb the spread of fake news on social media platforms, recent studies have considered an online crowdsourcing fact-checking approach as one possible intervention method to reduce misinformation. However, it remains unclear under what…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-10 Matthew I Jones , Scott D. Pauls , Feng Fu

'Fake news' is information that generally spreads on the web, which only mimics the form of reliable news media content. The phenomenon has assumed uncontrolled proportions in recent years rising the concern of authorities and citizens. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Davide Bennato , Giuseppe Pernagallo , Benedetto Torrisi

Many people use social networking services (SNSs) to easily access various news. There are numerous ways to obtain and share ``fake news,'' which are news carrying false information. To address fake news, several studies have been conducted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Taichi Murayama , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Fake news has now grown into a big problem for societies and also a major challenge for people fighting disinformation. This phenomenon plagues democratic elections, reputations of individual persons or organizations, and has negatively…

Massive amounts of misinformation have been observed to spread in uncontrolled fashion across social media. Examples include rumors, hoaxes, fake news, and conspiracy theories. At the same time, several journalistic organizations devote…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Chengcheng Shao , Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

The generation and spread of fake news within new and online media sources is emerging as a phenomenon of high societal significance. Combating them using data-driven analytics has been attracting much recent scholarly interest. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Iknoor Singh , Deepak P , Anoop K