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Nowadays, People prefer to follow the latest news on social media, as it is cheap, easily accessible, and quickly disseminated. However, it can spread fake or unreliable, low-quality news that intentionally contains false information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zainab A. Jawad , Ahmed J. Obaid

In the past decade, the social networks platforms and micro-blogging sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Weibo have become an integral part of our day-to-day activities and is widely used all over the world by billions of users…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Sakshini Hangloo , Bhavna Arora

Fake News Detection has been a challenging problem in the field of Machine Learning. Researchers have approached it via several techniques using old Statistical Classification models and modern Deep Learning. Today, with the growing amount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Lovedeep Singh

The online spreading of fake news is a major issue threatening entire societies. Much of this spreading is enabled by new media formats, namely social networks and online media sites. Researchers and practitioners have been trying to answer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jakub Simko , Patrik Racsko , Matus Tomlein , Martin Hanakova , Robert Moro , Maria Bielikova

Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture. It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations. Using automatic machine learning classification models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

Fake News Detection (FND) is an essential field in natural language processing that aims to identify and check the truthfulness of major claims in a news article to decide the news veracity. FND finds its uses in preventing social,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Prabhav Singh , Ridam Srivastava , K. P. S. Rana , Vineet Kumar

The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods that can detect fake news from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

Given the volume and speed at which fake news spreads across social media, automatic fake news detection has become a highly important task. However, this task presents several challenges, including extracting textual features that contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ingryd V. S. T. Pereira , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Rafael M. O. Cruz

Fake news is a type of pervasive propaganda that spreads misinformation online, taking advantage of social media's extensive reach to manipulate public perception. Over the past three years, fake news has become a focal discussion point in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Qi Jia Sun

Stance detection is a crucial NLP task with numerous applications in social science, from analyzing online discussions to assessing political campaigns. This paper investigates the optimal way to incorporate metadata into a political stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Stanley Cao , Felix Drinkall

The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for timely identification and containment of fake news, and mitigation of its widespread impact on public opinion. While much of the earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Karishma Sharma , Feng Qian , He Jiang , Natali Ruchansky , Ming Zhang , Yan Liu

This tutorial aims to cover the state-of-the-art on stance detection and address open research avenues for interested researchers and practitioners. Stance detection is a recent research topic where the stance towards a given target or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dilek Küçük , Fazli Can

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

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

With the rapid proliferation of information across digital platforms, stance detection has emerged as a pivotal challenge in social media analysis. While most of the existing approaches focus solely on textual data, real-world social media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Lata Pangtey , Omkar Kabde , Shahid Shafi Dar , Nagendra Kumar

Stance classification aims to identify, for a particular issue under discussion, whether the speaker or author of a conversational turn has Pro (Favor) or Con (Against) stance on the issue. Detecting stance in tweets is a new task proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Amita Misra , Brian Ecker , Theodore Handleman , Nicolas Hahn , Marilyn Walker

Stance detection, which aims to determine whether an individual is for or against a target concept, promises to uncover public opinion from large streams of social media data. Yet even human annotation of social media content does not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Kenneth Joseph , Sarah Shugars , Ryan Gallagher , Jon Green , Alexi Quintana Mathé , Zijian An , David Lazer

The diffusion of rumors on microblogs generally follows a propagation tree structure, that provides valuable clues on how an original message is transmitted and responded by users over time. Recent studies reveal that rumor detection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ruichao Yang , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Wei Gao

Stance detection is the task of determining the viewpoint expressed in a text towards a given target. A specific direction within the task focuses on cross-target stance detection, where a model trained on samples pertaining to certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Media news are making a large part of public opinion and, therefore, must not be fake. News on web sites, blogs, and social media must be analyzed before being published. In this paper, we present linguistic characteristics of media news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru