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Disinformation has long been regarded as a severe social problem, where fake news is one of the most representative issues. What is worse, today's highly developed social media makes fake news widely spread at incredible speed, bringing in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Hao Liao , Qixin Liu , Kai Shu , Xing xie

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

Automatic fake news detection models are ostensibly based on logic, where the truth of a claim made in a headline can be determined by supporting or refuting evidence found in a resulting web query. These models are believed to be reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Ian Kelk , Benjamin Basseri , Wee Yi Lee , Richard Qiu , Chris Tanner

Although many fact-checking systems have been developed in academia and industry, fake news is still proliferating on social media. These systems mostly focus on fact-checking but usually neglect online users who are the main drivers of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee

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 has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kai Shu , Guoqing Zheng , Yichuan Li , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Scott Ruston , Huan Liu

Nowadays social media is the primary platform for people to obtain news and share information. Combating online fake news has become an urgent task to reduce the damage it causes to society. Existing methods typically improve their fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xing Su , Jian Yang , Jia Wu , Zitai Qiu

Disinformation and fake news have posed detrimental effects on individuals and society in recent years, attracting broad attention to fake news detection. The majority of existing fake news detection algorithms focus on mining news content…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yingtong Dou , Kai Shu , Congying Xia , Philip S. Yu , Lichao Sun

The evolution of electronic media is a mixed blessing. Due to the easy access, low cost, and faster reach of the information, people search out and devour news from online social networks. In contrast, the increasing acceptance of social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hema Karande , Rahee Walambe , Victor Benjamin , Ketan Kotecha , T. S. Raghu

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

With the rapid development of social media, the wide dissemination of fake news on social media is increasingly threatening both individuals and society. One of the unique challenges for fake news detection on social media is how to detect…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiajun Zhang , Zhixun Li , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

The widespread dissemination of fake news on social media poses significant risks, necessitating timely and accurate detection. However, existing methods struggle with unseen news due to their reliance on training data from past events and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shuzhi Gong , Richard Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

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

Recent years have witnessed the significant damage caused by various types of fake news. Although considerable effort has been applied to address this issue and much progress has been made on detecting fake news, most existing approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yi Han , Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

As the world is becoming more dependent on the internet for information exchange, some overzealous journalists, hackers, bloggers, individuals and organizations tend to abuse the gift of free information environment by polluting it with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kwadwo Osei Bonsu

Social networks enable users to freely communicate with each other and share their recent news, ongoing activities or views about different topics. As a result, they can be seen as a potentially viable source of information to understand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Fattane Zarrinkalam , Ebrahim Bagheri

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

Detecting whether a news article is fake or genuine is a crucial task in today's digital world where it's easy to create and spread a misleading news article. This is especially true of news stories shared on social media since they don't…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Shashank Gupta , Raghuveer Thirukovalluru , Manjira Sinha , Sandya Mannarswamy

Information on social media spreads through an underlying diffusion network that connects people of common interests and opinions. This diffusion network often comprises multiple layers, each capturing the spreading dynamics of a certain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yan Xia , Ted Hsuan Yun Chen , Mikko Kivelä

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