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Fake news is risky since it has been created to manipulate the readers' opinions and beliefs. In this work, we compared the language of false news to the real one of real news from an emotional perspective, considering a set of false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Bilal Ghanem , Paolo Rosso , Francisco Rangel

In recent years there have been a growing interest in online auditing of information flow over social networks with the goal of monitoring undesirable effects, such as, misinformation and fake news. Most previous work on the subject, focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Daniel Toma , Wasim Huleihel

The widespread availability of internet access and handheld devices confers to social media a power similar to the one newspapers used to have. People seek affordable information on social media and can reach it within seconds. Yet this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol , Radu-Cătălin Nicolescu , Panagiotis Karras

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

The proliferation of false information in the digital age has become a pressing concern, necessitating the development of effective and robust detection methods. This paper offers a comprehensive review of existing false information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kun Xie , Sibo Wang

Fake news detection is crucial for preventing the dissemination of misinformation on social media. To differentiate fake news from real ones, existing methods observe the language patterns of the news post and "zoom in" to verify its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Xueyao Zhang , Rundong Li , Danding Wang , Yongchun Zhu

Users polarization and confirmation bias play a key role in misinformation spreading on online social media. Our aim is to use this information to determine in advance potential targets for hoaxes and fake news. In this paper, we introduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Michela Del Vicario , Walter Quattrociocchi , Antonio Scala , Fabiana Zollo

Joint analysis of data from multiple information repositories facilitates uncovering the underlying structure in heterogeneous datasets. Single and coupled matrix-tensor factorization (CMTF) has been widely used in this context for…

Distinguishing between misinformation and real information is one of the most challenging problems in today's interconnected world. The vast majority of the state-of-the-art in detecting misinformation is fully supervised, requiring a large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

The proliferation of fake news poses a serious threat to society, as it can misinform and manipulate the public, erode trust in institutions, and undermine democratic processes. To address this issue, we present FakeSwarm, a fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jun Wu , Xuesong Ye

Fake news are nowadays an issue of pressing concern, given their recent rise as a potential threat to high-quality journalism and well-informed public discourse. The Fake News Challenge (FNC-1) was organized in 2017 to encourage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Luís Borges , Bruno Martins , Pável Calado

The proliferation of fake news on digital platforms has underscored the need for robust and scalable detection mechanisms. Traditional methods often fall short in handling large and diverse datasets due to limitations in scalability and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Solmaz Seyed Monir , Dongfang Zhao

Fake news poses global risks by influencing elections and spreading misinformation, making detection critical. Existing NLP and supervised Machine Learning methods perform well under cross-validation but struggle to generalise across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nathaniel Hoy , Theodora Koulouri

As online news has become increasingly popular and fake news increasingly prevalent, the ability to audit the veracity of online news content has become more important than ever. Such a task represents a binary classification challenge, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ciara Blackledge , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

With the rapid growth of online information, the spread of fake news has become a serious social challenge. In this study, we propose a novel detection framework based on Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify and classify fake news by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaochuan Xu , Peiyang Yu , Zeqiu Xu , Jiani Wang

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

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 proliferation of fake news has emerged as a severe societal problem, raising significant interest from industry and academia. While existing deep-learning based methods have made progress in detecting fake news accurately, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoru Li , Haoliang Li

The spread of fake news has emerged as a critical challenge, undermining trust and posing threats to society. In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the capability to generate believable fake content has intensified these concerns. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jinyan Su , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jonibek Mansurov , Di Wang , Preslav Nakov

The authors of fake news often use facts from verified news sources and mix them with misinformation to create confusion and provoke unrest among the readers. The spread of fake news can thereby have serious implications on our society.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Inna Vogel , Meghana Meghana