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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

The rapid growth of social media has resulted in an explosion of online news content, leading to a significant increase in the spread of misleading or false information. While machine learning techniques have been widely applied to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hao Chen , Hui Guo , Baochen Hu , Shu Hu , Jinrong Hu , Siwei Lyu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

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

Fake news detection is a very prominent and essential task in the field of journalism. This challenging problem is seen so far in the field of politics, but it could be even more challenging when it is to be determined in the multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Tanik Saikh , Arkadipta De , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Recent advancements in deep learning generative models have raised concerns as they can create highly convincing counterfeit images and videos. This poses a threat to people's integrity and can lead to social instability. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Leandro A. Passos , Danilo Jodas , Kelton A. P. da Costa , Luis A. Souza Júnior , Douglas Rodrigues , Javier Del Ser , David Camacho , João Paulo Papa

Automatic fake news detection models are ostensibly based on logic, where the truth of a claim made in a headline can be determined by supporting or refuting evidence found in a resulting web query. These models are believed to be reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Ian Kelk , Benjamin Basseri , Wee Yi Lee , Richard Qiu , Chris Tanner

The popularity of online social networks has enabled rapid dissemination of information. People now can share and consume information much more rapidly than ever before. However, low-quality and/or accidentally/deliberately fake information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

Over the past decade, fake news and misinformation have turned into a major problem that has impacted different aspects of our lives, including politics and public health. Inspired by natural human behavior, we present an approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zahra Ghadiri , Milad Ranjbar , Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad , Sadegh Raeisi

The prevalence and perniciousness of fake news has been a critical issue on the Internet, which stimulates the development of automatic fake news detection in turn. In this paper, we focus on the evidence-based fake news detection, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Weizhi Xu , Junfei Wu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

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…

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

With the development of social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and gotten widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, people can get infected by the fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Yang Yang , Lei Zheng , Jiawei Zhang , Qingcai Cui , Zhoujun Li , Philip S. Yu

Massive dissemination of fake news and its potential to erode democracy has increased the demand for accurate fake news detection. Recent advancements in this area have proposed novel techniques that aim to detect fake news by exploring how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Xinyi Zhou , Atishay Jain , Vir V. Phoha , Reza Zafarani

The proliferation of fake news has had far-reaching implications on politics, the economy, and society at large. While Fake news detection methods have been employed to mitigate this issue, they primarily depend on two essential elements:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Guanghua Li , Wensheng Lu , Wei Zhang , Defu Lian , Kezhong Lu , Rui Mao , Kai Shu , Hao Liao

With the advent of deep learning, text generation language models have improved dramatically, with text at a similar level as human-written text. This can lead to rampant misinformation because content can now be created cheaply and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Sai Gurrapu , Lifu Huang , Feras A. Batarseh

Combating fake news and misinformation propagation is a challenging task in the post-truth era. News feed and search algorithms could potentially lead to unintentional large-scale propagation of false and fabricated information with users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Sina Mohseni , Fan Yang , Shiva Pentyala , Mengnan Du , Yi Liu , Nic Lupfer , Xia Hu , Shuiwang Ji , Eric Ragan

The evolution of the information and communication technologies has dramatically increased the number of people with access to the Internet, which has changed the way the information is consumed. As a consequence of the above, fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Álvaro Ibrain Rodríguez , Lara Lloret Iglesias

Existing fake news detection methods aim to classify a piece of news as true or false and provide veracity explanations, achieving remarkable performances. However, they often tailor automated solutions on manual fact-checked reports,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Zhiwei Yang , Jing Ma , Hechang Chen , Hongzhan Lin , Ziyang Luo , Yi Chang

While recent work on automated fact-checking has focused mainly on verifying and explaining claims, for which the list of claims is readily available, identifying check-worthy claim sentences from a text remains challenging. Current claim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Archita Pathak , Rohini K. Srihari

The problem associated with the propagation of fake news continues to grow at an alarming scale. This trend has generated much interest from politics to academia and industry alike. We propose a framework that detects and classifies fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Oluwaseun Ajao , Deepayan Bhowmik , Shahrzad Zargari