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In the recent political climate, the topic of news quality has drawn attention both from the public and the academic communities. The growing distrust of traditional news media makes it harder to find a common base of accepted truth. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Junting Ye , Steven Skiena

The rise of fake news in the past decade has brought with it a host of consequences, from swaying opinions on elections to generating uncertainty during a pandemic. A majority of methods developed to combat disinformation either focus on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Mansooreh Karami , Tahora H. Nazer , Huan Liu

The volume of news content has increased significantly in recent years and systems to process and deliver this information in an automated fashion at scale are becoming increasingly prevalent. One critical component that is required in such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Antonia Saravanou , Giorgio Stefanoni , Edgar Meij

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

Fake News Detection is an essential problem in the field of Natural Language Processing. The benefits of an effective solution in this area are manifold for the goodwill of society. On a surface level, it broadly matches with the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lovedeep Singh

Over the last years, there has been an unprecedented proliferation of fake news. As a consequence, we are more susceptible to the pernicious impact that misinformation and disinformation spreading can have in different segments of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Santiago Alonso-Bartolome , Isabel Segura-Bedmar

The proliferation of fake news has become a significant concern in recent times due to its potential to spread misinformation and manipulate public opinion. This paper presents a comprehensive study on detecting fake news in Brazilian…

Automatically identifying fake news from the Internet is a challenging problem in deception detection tasks. Online news is modified constantly during its propagation, e.g., malicious users distort the original truth and make up fake news.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Mingfei Guo , Xiuying Chen , Juntao Li , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

We propose multi-agent reinforcement learning as a new method for modeling fake news in social networks. This method allows us to model human behavior in social networks both in unaccustomed populations and in populations that have adapted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christoph Aymanns , Jakob Foerster , Co-Pierre Georg , Matthias Weber

The rise of social media has enabled the widespread propagation of fake news, text that is published with an intent to spread misinformation and sway beliefs. Rapidly detecting fake news, especially as new events arise, is important to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Nikhil Mehta , Dan Goldwasser

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

The spread of misinformation poses a threat to the social media ecosystem. Effective countermeasures to mitigate this threat require that social media platforms be able to accurately detect low-credibility accounts even before the content…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Bao Tran Truong , Oliver Melbourne Allen , Filippo Menczer

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false information campaigns with targeted manipulation of public opinion on specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Savvas Zannettou , Michael Sirivianos , Jeremy Blackburn , Nicolas Kourtellis

In the age of social news, it is important to understand the types of reactions that are evoked from news sources with various levels of credibility. In the present work we seek to better understand how users react to trusted and deceptive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Maria Glenski , Tim Weninger , Svitlana Volkova

In recent years, fake news detection has received increasing attention in public debate and scientific research. Despite advances in detection techniques, the production and spread of false information have become more sophisticated, driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pietro Dell'Oglio , Alessandro Bondielli , Francesco Marcelloni , Lucia C. Passaro

Making disguise between real and fake news propagation through online social networks is an important issue in many applications. The time gap between the news release time and detection of its label is a significant step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Maryam Ramezani , Mina Rafiei , Soroush Omranpour , Hamid R. Rabiee

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

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machine learning-based methods for detecting such fake news,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Dimitris Spithouris , Evangelos P. Markatos , Nicolas Kourtellis

Media seems to have become more partisan, often providing a biased coverage of news catering to the interest of specific groups. It is therefore essential to identify credible information content that provides an objective narrative of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Gerhard Weikum

Fake news is a growing problem in the last years, especially during elections. It's hard work to identify what is true and what is false among all the user generated content that circulates every day. Technology can help with that work and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Caio Almeida , Débora Santos