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The use of social media platforms has been gradually increasing and fake news spreading is becoming an alarming issue nowadays. The spreading of fake news means disseminating false, confusing, and spurious information which hurts families,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Umme Faria Moon , MD Ahsan Habib Rasel , Md. Musfique Anwar

Recently a lot of progress has been made in rumor modeling and rumor detection for micro-blogging streams. However, existing automated methods do not perform very well for early rumor detection, which is crucial in many settings, e.g., in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tu Nguyen , Cheng Li , Claudia Niederée

Reputed by their low-cost, easy-access, real-time and valuable information, social media also wildly spread unverified or fake news. Rumors can notably cause severe damage on individuals and the society. Therefore, rumor detection on social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Abderrazek Azri , Cécile Favre , Nouria Harbi , Jérôme Darmont , Camille Noûs

As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates. The use of social media in such situations comes with the caveat that new information being released piecemeal may encourage rumours,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi , Peter Tolmie

With the development of social media, rumors spread quickly, cause great harm to society and economy. Thereby, many effective rumor detection methods have been developed, among which the rumor propagation structure learning based methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

Social media are nowadays one of the main news sources for millions of people around the globe due to their low cost, easy access and rapid dissemination. This however comes at the cost of dubious trustworthiness and significant risk of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Federico Monti , Fabrizio Frasca , Davide Eynard , Damon Mannion , Michael M. Bronstein

Rumors are rampant in the era of social media. Conversation structures provide valuable clues to differentiate between real and fake claims. However, existing rumor detection methods are either limited to the strict relation of user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Mingfei Cheng , Zhiwei Yang , Liangliang Chen , Guang Chen

This article presents a novel approach for learning low-dimensional distributed representations of users in online social networks. Existing methods rely on the network structure formed by the social relationships among users to extract…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Harvineet Singh , Amitabha Bagchi , Parag Singla

The problem associated with the propagation of fake news continues to grow at an alarming scale. This trend has generated much interest from politics to academia and industry alike. We propose a framework that detects and classifies fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Oluwaseun Ajao , Deepayan Bhowmik , Shahrzad Zargari

The popularity of online social networks has enabled rapid dissemination of information. People now can share and consume information much more rapidly than ever before. However, low-quality and/or accidentally/deliberately fake information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

Massive dissemination of fake news and its potential to erode democracy has increased the demand for accurate fake news detection. Recent advancements in this area have proposed novel techniques that aim to detect fake news by exploring how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Xinyi Zhou , Atishay Jain , Vir V. Phoha , Reza Zafarani

With the rapid development of mobile Internet technology and the widespread use of mobile devices, it becomes much easier for people to express their opinions on social media. The openness and convenience of social media platforms provide a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Qi Huang , Junshuai Yu , Jia Wu , Bin Wang

Social media communications are becoming increasingly prevalent; some useful, some false, whether unwittingly or maliciously. An increasing number of rumours daily flood the social networks. Determining their veracity in an autonomous way…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Georgios Giasemidis , Nikolaos Kaplis , Ioannis Agrafiotis , Jason R. C. Nurse

Traditional methods for detecting rumors on social media primarily focus on analyzing textual content, often struggling to capture the complexity of online interactions. Recent research has shifted towards leveraging graph neural networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xingyu Peng , Junran Wu , Ruomei Liu , Ke Xu

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

Fake news can have a significant negative impact on society because of the growing use of mobile devices and the worldwide increase in Internet access. It is therefore essential to develop a simple mathematical model to understand the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Taichi Murayama , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki , Ryota Kobayashi

Analysing how people react to rumours associated with news in social media is an important task to prevent the spreading of misinformation, which is nowadays widely recognized as a dangerous tendency. In social media conversations, users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Endang Wahyu Pamungkas , Valerio Basile , Viviana Patti

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 2018-03-07 Luca de Alfaro , Massimo Di Pierro , Rakshit Agrawal , Eugenio Tacchini , Gabriele Ballarin , Marco L. Della Vedova , Stefano Moret

Social media is a popular platform for timely information sharing. One of the important challenges for social media platforms like Twitter is whether to trust news shared on them when there is no systematic news verification process. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Chandra Mouli Madhav Kotteti , Xishuang Dong , Lijun Qian

Users increasing activity across various social networks made it the most widely used platform for exchanging and propagating information among individuals. To spread information within a network, a user initially shared information on a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maryam Ramezani , Hossein Goli , AmirMohammad Izadi , Hamid R. Rabiee