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Over the past decade it has become evident that intentional disinformation in the political context -- so-called fake news -- is a danger to democracy. However, until now there has been no clear understanding of how to define fake news,…

Applications · Statistics 2021-12-01 Dorje C. Brody , David M. Meier

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for fake news detection. However, state-of-the-art approaches are usually trained on datasets of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Sahar Tahmasebi , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth , Eric Müller-Budack

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

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…

Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. Social media appeals to users due to its fast dissemination of information, low cost, and easy access. However, social media also enables the widespread of fake news.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Kai Shu , Xinyi Zhou , Suhang Wang , Reza Zafarani , Huan Liu

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

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

Social media becomes the central way for people to obtain and utilise news, due to its rapidness and inexpensive value of data distribution. Though, such features of social media platforms also present it a root cause of fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Priyanka Meel , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

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

Social media platforms are vulnerable to fake news dissemination, which causes negative consequences such as panic and wrong medication in the healthcare domain. Therefore, it is important to automatically detect fake news in an early stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Ipek Baris , Zeyd Boukhers

Over the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of misinformation on the Internet, with online users constantly falling victims of fake news. A multitude of past studies have analyzed fake news diffusion mechanics and detection and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Manolis Chalkiadakis , Alexandros Kornilakis , Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Evangelos P. Markatos , Nicolas Kourtellis

News plays a significant role in shaping people's beliefs and opinions. Fake news has always been a problem, which wasn't exposed to the mass public until the past election cycle for the 45th President of the United States. While quite a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Zhixuan Zhou , Huankang Guan , Meghana Moorthy Bhat , Justin Hsu

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

Conspicuous progression in the field of machine learning and deep learning have led the jump of highly realistic fake media, these media oftentimes referred as deepfakes. Deepfakes are fabricated media which are generated by sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Aniruddha Tiwari , Rushit Dave , Mounika Vanamala

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

With the advent of social media, an increasing number of netizens are sharing and reading posts and news online. However, the huge volumes of misinformation (e.g., fake news and rumors) that flood the internet can adversely affect people's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zhiwei Liu , Tianlin Zhang , Kailai Yang , Paul Thompson , Zeping Yu , Sophia Ananiadou

Fake news existed ever since there was news, from rumors to printed media then radio and television. Recently, the information age, with its communications and Internet breakthroughs, exacerbated the spread of fake news. Additionally, aside…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Fatema Al Mukhaini , Shaikhah Al Abdoulie , Aisha Al Kharuosi , Amal El Ahmad , Monther Aldwairi

In this paper, we delve into the rapidly evolving challenge of misinformation detection, with a specific focus on the nuanced manipulation of narrative frames - an under-explored area within the AI community. The potential for Generative AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Guan Wang , Rebecca Frederick , Jinglong Duan , William Wong , Verica Rupar , Weihua Li , Quan Bai

With the rapid development of online social networks and the inadequacies in content moderation mechanisms, the detection of fake news has emerged as a pressing concern for the public. Various methods have been proposed for fake news…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rongping Ye , Xiaobing Pei

The viral spread of fake news has caused great social harm, making fake news detection an urgent task. Current fake news detection methods rely heavily on text information by learning the extracted news content or writing style of internal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang