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With the increasing popularity of smart devices, rumors with multimedia content become more and more common on social networks. The multimedia information usually makes rumors look more convincing. Therefore, finding an automatic approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Weiming Wen , Songwen Su , Zhou Yu

The spread of rumors along with breaking events seriously hinders the truth in the era of social media. Previous studies reveal that due to the lack of annotated resources, rumors presented in minority languages are hard to be detected.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongzhan Lin , Pengyao Yi , Jing Ma , Haiyun Jiang , Ziyang Luo , Shuming Shi , Ruifang Liu

The emergence of the Internet as a ubiquitous technology has facilitated the rapid evolution of social media as the leading virtual platform for communication, content sharing, and information dissemination. In spite of revolutionizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Sarina Jami , Iman Sahebi , Mohammad M. Sabermahani , Seyed P. Shariatpanahi , Aresh Dadlani , Behrouz Maham

Social media platforms have become key channels for spreading and tracking rumors due to their widespread accessibility and ease of information sharing. Rumors can continuously emerge across diverse domains and topics, often with the intent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohadeseh Sheikhqoraei , Zainabolhoda Heshmati , Zeinab Rajabi , Leila Rabiei

Social media is an area where users often experience censorship through a variety of means such as the restriction of search terms or active and retroactive deletion of messages. In this paper we examine the feasibility of automatically…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Donn Morrison

Recent years have seen various rumor diffusion models being assumed in detection of rumor source research of the online social network. Diffusion model is arguably considered as a very important and challengeable factor for source detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rong Jin , Weili Wu

Today's social networks continuously generate massive streams of data, which provide a valuable starting point for the detection of rumours as soon as they start to propagate. However, rumour detection faces tight latency bounds, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Hongzhi Yin , Matthias Weidlich , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Thai Son Mai , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

The proliferation of social media in communication and information dissemination has made it an ideal platform for spreading rumors. Automatically debunking rumors at their stage of diffusion is known as \textit{early rumor detection},…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Tong Chen , Lin Wu , Xue Li , Jun Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Yang Wang

Information quality in social media is an increasingly important issue, but web-scale data hinders experts' ability to assess and correct much of the inaccurate content, or `fake news,' present in these platforms. This paper develops a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Cody Buntain , Jennifer Golbeck

Kyle (1985) proposes two types of rumors: informed rumors which are based on some private information and uninformed rumors which are not based on any information (i.e. bluffing). Also, prior studies find that when people have credible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Alex Kim , Sangwon Yoon

Rumors spread dramatically fast through online social media services, and people are exploring methods to detect rumors automatically. Existing methods typically learn semantic representations of all reposts to a rumor candidate for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Changhe Song , Cunchao Tu , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

With the increasing use of online social networks as a source of news and information, the propensity for a rumor to disseminate widely and quickly poses a great concern, especially in disaster situations where users do not have enough time…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Abiola Osho , Caden Waters , George Amariucai

The spread of rumors through social media and online social networks can not only disrupt the daily lives of citizens but also result in loss of life and property. A rumor spreads when individuals, who are unable decide the authenticity of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-29 Bhushan Kotnis , Joy Kuri

In recent years people have become increasingly reliant on social media to read news and get information, and some social media users post unsubstantiated information to gain attention. Such information is known as rumours. Nowadays, rumour…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yaohou Fan

The proliferation of false information in the digital age has become a pressing concern, necessitating the development of effective and robust detection methods. This paper offers a comprehensive review of existing false information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kun Xie , Sibo Wang

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

Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social media, producing all kinds of updates related to news stories, albeit with the caveat that some of those early updates tend to be rumours, i.e., information with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

The role of social media in opinion formation has far-reaching implications in all spheres of society. Though social media provide platforms for expressing news and views, it is hard to control the quality of posts due to the sheer volumes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rini Anggrainingsih , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo

Recently, online social media has become a primary source for new information and misinformation or rumours. In the absence of an automatic rumour detection system the propagation of rumours has increased manifold leading to serious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shaswat Patel , Prince Bansal , Preeti Kaur