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With the current shift in the mass media landscape from journalistic rigor to social media, personalized social media is becoming the new norm. Although the digitalization progress of the media brings many advantages, it also increases the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

The rising popularity of social media has radically changed the way news content is propagated, including interactive attempts with new dimensions. To date, traditional news media such as newspapers, television and radio have already…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Praboda Rajapaksha , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi , Bruno Defude

We build a novel database of around 285,000 notes from the Twitter Community Notes program to analyze the causal influence of appending contextual information to potentially misleading posts on their dissemination. Employing a difference in…

General Economics · Economics 2024-04-04 Thomas Renault , David Restrepo Amariles , Aurore Troussel

The daily exposure of social media users to propaganda and disinformation campaigns has reinvigorated the need to investigate the local and global patterns of diffusion of different (mis)information content on social media. Echo chambers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Stefano Guarino , Noemi Trino , Alessandro Celestini , Alessandro Chessa , Gianni Riotta

Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who are more likely to adopt ideas and spread them is essential in order to develop effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Vedran Sekara , Ivan Dotu , Manuel Cebrian , Esteban Moro , Manuel Garcia-Herranz

This article presents a preliminary approach towards characterizing political fake news on Twitter through the analysis of their meta-data. In particular, we focus on more than 1.5M tweets collected on the day of the election of Donald…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Julio Amador , Axel Oehmichen , Miguel Molina-Solana

In recent years, the proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms has become a significant concern. Initially designed for sharing information and fostering social connections, platforms like Twitter (now rebranded as X) have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Uku Kangur , Roshni Chakraborty , Rajesh Sharma

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

The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods that can detect fake news from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

Citizens and Emergency Managers need to be able to distinguish ''fake'' (untrue) news posts from real news posts on social media during disasters. This paper is based on an online survey conducted in 2018 that produced 341 responses from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Linda Plotnick , Starr Hiltz , Sukeshini Grandhi , Julie Dugdale

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

Considerable advancements have been made to tackle the misrepresentation of information derived from reference articles in the domains of fact-checking and faithful summarization. However, an unaddressed aspect remains - the identification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Hou Pong Chan , Kathleen McKeown , Heng Ji

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

Fake news, rumor, incorrect information, and misinformation detection are nowadays crucial issues as these might have serious consequences for our social fabrics. The rate of such information is increasing rapidly due to the availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Arjun Roy , Kingshuk Basak , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

In this modern era, communication has become faster and easier. This means fallacious information can spread as fast as reality. Considering the damage that fake news kindles on the psychology of people and the fact that such news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Amey Parundekar , Susan Elias , Ashwin Ashok

With the growth of the internet, the number of fake-news online has been proliferating every year. The consequences of such phenomena are manifold, ranging from lousy decision-making process to bullying and violence episodes. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Diego Esteves , Aniketh Janardhan Reddy , Piyush Chawla , Jens Lehmann

The prevalence of social media has made information sharing possible across the globe. The downside, unfortunately, is the wide spread of misinformation. Methods applied in most previous rumor classifiers give an equal weight, or attention,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Sansiri Tarnpradab , Kien A. Hua

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

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

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