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This demonstration paper presents $\mathbf{LayLens}$, a tool aimed to make deepfake understanding easier for users of all educational backgrounds. While prior works often rely on outputs containing technical jargon, LayLens bridges the gap…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Abhijeet Narang , Parul Gupta , Liuyijia Su , Abhinav Dhall

Information quality in social media is an increasingly important issue, but web-scale data hinders experts' ability to assess and correct much of the inaccurate content, or `fake news,' present in these platforms. This paper develops a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Cody Buntain , Jennifer Golbeck

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

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

For nearly a decade, deepfake detection has been framed as a classification task: given an audio or video clip, decide whether it is real or synthetic. Top detectors often report high accuracy on standard benchmarks; however, performance…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jessee Ho , Shweta Khushu , Shaina Raza

In this work, we introduce X-FACT: the largest publicly available multilingual dataset for factual verification of naturally existing real-world claims. The dataset contains short statements in 25 languages and is labeled for veracity by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ashim Gupta , Vivek Srikumar

Detection of fake news is crucial to ensure the authenticity of information and maintain the news ecosystems reliability. Recently, there has been an increase in fake news content due to the recent proliferation of social media and fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Pallabi Saikia , Kshitij Gundale , Ankit Jain , Dev Jadeja , Harvi Patel , Mohendra Roy

Political misinformation poses significant challenges to democratic processes, shaping public opinion and trust in media. Manual fact-checking methods face issues of scalability and annotator bias, while machine learning models require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Veronica Chatrath , Marcelo Lotif , Shaina Raza

Deepfakes are computer manipulated videos where the face of an individual has been replaced with that of another. Software for creating such forgeries is easy to use and ever more popular, causing serious threats to personal reputation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Samuele Pino , Mark James Carman , Paolo Bestagini

The rapid proliferation of online misinformation threatens the stability of digital social systems and poses significant risks to public trust, policy, and safety, necessitating reliable automated fake news detection. Existing methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Roopa Bukke , Soumya Pandey , Suraj Kumar , Soumi Chattopadhyay , Chandranath Adak

In recent years, the rampant spread of misinformation on social media has made accurate detection of multimodal fake news a critical research focus. However, previous research has not adequately understood the semantics of images, and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peican Zhu , Yubo Jing , Le Cheng , Keke Tang , Yangming Guo

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

Over the last years, there has been an unprecedented proliferation of fake news. As a consequence, we are more susceptible to the pernicious impact that misinformation and disinformation spreading can have in different segments of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Santiago Alonso-Bartolome , Isabel Segura-Bedmar

Previous studies on multimodal fake news detection mainly focus on the alignment and integration of cross-modal features, as well as the application of text-image consistency. However, they overlook the semantic enhancement effects of large…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Peican Zhu , Yubo Jing , Le Cheng , Bin Chen , Xiaodong Cui , Lianwei Wu , Keke Tang

Automatic headline generation enables users to comprehend ongoing news events promptly and has recently become an important task in web mining and natural language processing. With the growing need for news headline generation, we argue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jiaming Shen , Jialu Liu , Dan Finnie , Negar Rahmati , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork

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

With the rapid development of deep learning techniques, the generation and counterfeiting of multimedia material are becoming increasingly straightforward to perform. At the same time, sharing fake content on the web has become so simple…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Davide Salvi , Brian Hosler , Paolo Bestagini , Matthew C. Stamm , Stefano Tubaro

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed fake news detection and fact-checking tasks from simple classification to complex reasoning. However, evaluation frameworks have not kept pace. Current benchmarks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Cheng Xu , Changhong Jin , Yingjie Niu , Nan Yan , Yuke Mei , Shuhao Guan , Liming Chen , M-Tahar Kechadi

Deepfake detection, the task of automatically discriminating machine-generated text, is increasingly critical with recent advances in natural language generative models. Existing approaches to deepfake detection typically represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Wanjun Zhong , Duyu Tang , Zenan Xu , Ruize Wang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin

Deepfake is a deep learning-based technique that makes it easy to change or modify images and videos. In investigations and court, visual evidence is commonly employed, but these pieces of evidence may now be suspect due to technological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kundan Patil , Shrushti Kale , Jaivanti Dhokey , Abhishek Gulhane