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Social media anomaly detection is of critical importance to prevent malicious activities such as bullying, terrorist attack planning, and fraud information dissemination. With the recent popularity of social media, new types of anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Rose Yu , Huida Qiu , Zhen Wen , Ching-Yung Lin , Yan Liu

With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening our democracies, public health, and news outlets' credibility.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Giancarlo Ruffo , Alfonso Semeraro , Anastasia Giachanou , Paolo Rosso

Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and fake news. Many efforts have been taken to detect and debunk…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Quanzhi Li , Qiong Zhang , Luo Si , Yingchi Liu

Fake news and misinformation are a matter of concern for people around the globe. Users of the internet and social media sites encounter content with false information much frequently. Fake news detection is one of the most analyzed and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Chahat Raj , Priyanka Meel

Fake news has become omnipresent in digitalized areas such as social media platforms. While being disseminated online, it also poses a threat to individuals and societies offline, for example, in the context of democratic elections.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Enrico Bunde , Niklas Kühl , Christian Meske

Fake news detection has become a research area that goes way beyond a purely academic interest as it has direct implications on our society as a whole. Recent advances have primarily focused on textbased approaches. However, it has become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Gregor Donabauer , Udo Kruschwitz

The plague of false information, popularly called fake news has affected lives of news consumers ever since the prevalence of social media. Thus understanding the spread of false information in social networks has gained a lot of attention…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Bhavtosh Rath , Wei Gao , Jaideep Srivastava

The battle against the spread of misinformation on the Internet is a daunting task faced by modern society. Fake news content is primarily distributed through digital platforms, with websites dedicated to producing and disseminating such…

Fake news emerged as an apparent global problem during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Addressing it requires a multidisciplinary effort to define the nature and extent of the problem, detect fake news in real time, and mitigate its…

The present level of proliferation of fake, biased, and propagandistic content online has made it impossible to fact-check every single suspicious claim or article, either manually or automatically. Thus, many researchers are shifting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Preslav Nakov , Husrev Taha Sencar , Jisun An , Haewoon Kwak

Detecting false information on social media is critical in mitigating its negative societal impacts. To reduce the propagation of false information, automated detection provide scalable, unbiased, and cost-effective methods. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Sarah Condran

In recent years, disinformation including fake news, has became a global phenomenon due to its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The wide spread of disinformation and fake news can cause detrimental societal effects. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kai Shu , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

In recent years, due to the booming development of online social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, online social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jiawei Zhang , Bowen Dong , Philip S. Yu

We study the problem of finding fake online news. This is an important problem as news of questionable credibility have recently been proliferating in social media at an alarming scale. As this is an understudied problem, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. However, social media also enables the widespread of fake news. Because of its detrimental effects brought by social media, fake news detection has attracted increasing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kai Shu , Deepak Mahudeswaran , Suhang Wang , Huan Liu

Social networks offer a ready channel for fake and misleading news to spread and exert influence. This paper examines the performance of different reputation algorithms when applied to a large and statistically significant portion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , Gabriele Ballarin , Stefano Moret , Massimo Di Pierro , Eugenio Tacchini , Marco L. Della Vedova

Today's social media platforms enable to spread both authentic and fake news very quickly. Some approaches have been proposed to automatically detect such "fake" news based on their content, but it is difficult to agree on universal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Oana Balmau , Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexandre Maurer , Matej Pavlovic , Willy Zwaenepoel

Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony and affect society, especially when dealing with an epidemic like COVID-19. The task of Fake News Detection aims to tackle the effects of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mrinal Rawat , Diptesh Kanojia

The online spreading of fake news is a major issue threatening entire societies. Much of this spreading is enabled by new media formats, namely social networks and online media sites. Researchers and practitioners have been trying to answer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jakub Simko , Patrik Racsko , Matus Tomlein , Martin Hanakova , Robert Moro , Maria Bielikova

Fake news detection is a critical yet challenging problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The rapid rise of social networking platforms has not only yielded a vast increase in information accessibility but has also accelerated the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ray Oshikawa , Jing Qian , William Yang Wang