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The proliferation of fake news has had far-reaching implications on politics, the economy, and society at large. While Fake news detection methods have been employed to mitigate this issue, they primarily depend on two essential elements:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Guanghua Li , Wensheng Lu , Wei Zhang , Defu Lian , Kezhong Lu , Rui Mao , Kai Shu , Hao Liao

The growing societal dependence on social media and user generated content for news and information has increased the influence of unreliable sources and fake content, which muddles public discourse and lessens trust in the media.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Marjan Hosseini , Alireza Javadian Sabet , Suining He , Derek Aguiar

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

Effective detection of fake news has recently attracted significant attention. Current studies have made significant contributions to predicting fake news with less focus on exploiting the relationship (similarity) between the textual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Xinyi Zhou , Jindi Wu , Reza Zafarani

Nowadays, social networks became essential in information exchange between individuals. Indeed, as users of these networks, we can send messages to other people according to the links connecting us. Moreover, given the large volume of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Salma Ben Dhaou , Mouloud Kharoune , Arnaud Martin , Boutheina Ben Yaghlane

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

Network models are widely used to represent relational information among interacting units and the structural implications of these relations. Recently, social network studies have focused a great deal of attention on random graph models of…

Applications · Statistics 2010-10-06 Mark S. Handcock , Krista J. Gile

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

The increasing popularity of social media promotes the proliferation of fake news. With the development of multimedia technology, fake news attempts to utilize multimedia contents with images or videos to attract and mislead readers for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Peng Qi , Juan Cao , Tianyun Yang , Junbo Guo , Jintao Li

In today's technologically driven world, the rapid spread of fake news, particularly during critical events like elections, poses a growing threat to the integrity of information. To tackle this challenge head-on, we introduce FakeWatch, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shaina Raza , Tahniat Khan , Veronica Chatrath , Drai Paulen-Patterson , Mizanur Rahman , Oluwanifemi Bamgbose

Online reviews significantly impact consumers' decision-making process and firms' economic outcomes and are widely seen as crucial to the success of online markets. Firms, therefore, have a strong incentive to manipulate ratings using fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Sherry He , Brett Hollenbeck , Gijs Overgoor , Davide Proserpio , Ali Tosyali

Advanced deepfake technologies are blurring the lines between real and fake, presenting both revolutionary opportunities and alarming threats. While it unlocks novel applications in fields like entertainment and education, its malicious use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qihao Shen , Jiaxing Xuan , Zhenguang Liu , Sifan Wu , Yutong Xie , Zhaoyan Ming , Yingying Jiao , kui Ren

False news has received attention from both the general public and the scholarly world. Such false information has the ability to affect public perception, giving nefarious groups the chance to influence the results of public events like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Biplob Kumar Sutradhar , Md. Zonaid , Nushrat Jahan Ria , Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

With their advanced capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly convincing and contextually relevant fake news, which can contribute to disseminating misinformation. Though there is much research on fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rupak Kumar Das , Jonathan Dodge

Nowadays, social medias such as Twitter, Memetracker and Blogs have become powerful tools to propagate information. They facilitate quick dissemination sequence of information such as news article, blog posts, user's interests and thoughts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Saba Babakhani , Niloofar Mozaffari , Ali Hamzeh

Social Networks' omnipresence and ease of use has revolutionized the generation and distribution of information in today's world. However, easy access to information does not equal an increased level of public knowledge. Unlike traditional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas , Adnan Akhunzada

Social networking and micro-blogging services, such as Twitter, play an important role in sharing digital information. Despite the popularity and usefulness of social media, they are regularly abused by corrupt users. One of these nefarious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Tanveer Khan , Antonis Michalas

Most news recommender systems try to identify users' interests and news' attributes and use them to obtain recommendations. Here we propose an adaptive model which combines similarities in users' rating patterns with epidemic-like spreading…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Tao Zhou

With the proliferation of social media, the detection of fake news has become a critical issue that poses a significant threat to society. The dissemination of fake information can lead to social harm and damage the credibility of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Qian Chang , Xia Lia , Patrick S. W. Fong

On the one hand, nowadays, fake news articles are easily propagated through various online media platforms and have become a grand threat to the trustworthiness of information. On the other hand, our understanding of the language of fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hamid Karimi , Jiliang Tang