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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

Due to the evolution of the Web and social network platforms it becomes very easy to disseminate the information. Peoples are creating and sharing more information than ever before, which may be misleading, misinformation or fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dharmaraj R. Patil

With their advanced capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly convincing and contextually relevant fake news, which can contribute to disseminating misinformation. Though there is much research on fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rupak Kumar Das , Jonathan Dodge

Can humans tell whether a news article was written by a person or a large language model (LLM)? We investigate this question using JudgeGPT, a study platform that independently measures source attribution (human vs. machine) and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alexander Loth , Martin Kappes , Marc-Oliver Pahl

This paper reports on a writing style analysis of hyperpartisan (i.e., extremely one-sided) news in connection to fake news. It presents a large corpus of 1,627 articles that were manually fact-checked by professional journalists from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Martin Potthast , Johannes Kiesel , Kevin Reinartz , Janek Bevendorff , Benno Stein

False information spread via the internet and social media influences public opinion and user activity, while generative models enable fake content to be generated faster and more cheaply than had previously been possible. In the not so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Antonis Maronikolakis , Hinrich Schutze , Mark Stevenson

Satire is a form of humorous critique, but it is sometimes misinterpreted by readers as legitimate news, which can lead to harmful consequences. We observe that the images used in satirical news articles often contain absurd or ridiculous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Lily Li , Or Levi , Pedram Hosseini , David A. Broniatowski

A lot of news sources picked up on Typhoon Rai (also known locally as Typhoon Odette), along with fake news outlets. The study honed in on the issue, to create a model that can identify between legitimate and illegitimate news articles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Lord Christian Carl H. Regacho , Ai Matsushita , Angie M. Ceniza-Canillo

Identifying risks associated with a company is important to investors and the well-being of the overall financial market. In this study, we build a computational framework to automatically extract company risk factors from news articles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jiaxin Pei , Soumya Vadlamannati , Liang-Kang Huang , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro , Xinyu Hua

Generative AI paraphrased text can be used for copyright infringement and the AI paraphrased content can deprive substantial revenue from original content creators. Despite this recent surge of malicious use of generative AI, there are few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Konstantinos Xylogiannopoulos , Petros Xanthopoulos , Panagiotis Karampelas , Georgios Bakamitsos

The automatic detection of satire vs. regular news is relevant for downstream applications (for instance, knowledge base population) and to improve the understanding of linguistic characteristics of satire. Recent approaches build upon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Robert McHardy , Heike Adel , Roman Klinger

Recent developments in neural language models (LMs) have raised concerns about their potential misuse for automatically spreading misinformation. In light of these concerns, several studies have proposed to detect machine-generated fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Tal Schuster , Roei Schuster , Darsh J Shah , Regina Barzilay

In the age of large language models (LLMs) and the widespread adoption of AI-driven content creation, the landscape of information dissemination has witnessed a paradigm shift. With the proliferation of both human-written and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jinyan Su , Claire Cardie , Preslav Nakov

Fake news may be intentionally created to promote economic, political and social interests, and can lead to negative impacts on humans beliefs and decisions. Hence, detection of fake news is an emerging problem that has become extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gisel Bastidas Guacho , Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

In an era increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence, the detection of fake news is crucial, especially in contexts like election seasons where misinformation can have significant societal impacts. This study evaluates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Sahas Koka , Anthony Vuong , Anish Kataria

Content analysis of news stories (whether manual or automatic) is a cornerstone of the communication studies field. However, much research is conducted at the level of individual news articles, despite the fact that news events (especially…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Tom Nicholls , Jonathan Bright

Employing paraphrasing tools to conceal plagiarized text is a severe threat to academic integrity. To enable the detection of machine-paraphrased text, we evaluate the effectiveness of five pre-trained word embedding models combined with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Tomáš Foltýnek , Norman Meuschke , Bela Gipp

Society is experimenting changes in information consumption, as new information channels such as social networks let people share news that do not necessarily be trust worthy. Sometimes, these sources of information produce fake news…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Cristina Puente , Rafael Palacios

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

People are increasingly consuming news curated by machine learning (ML) systems. Motivated by studies on algorithmic bias, this paper explores which recommendations of an algorithmic news curation system users trust and how this trust is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Hendrik Heuer , Andreas Breiter