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Kyle (1985) proposes two types of rumors: informed rumors which are based on some private information and uninformed rumors which are not based on any information (i.e. bluffing). Also, prior studies find that when people have credible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Alex Kim , Sangwon Yoon

We tackle the problem of classifying news articles pertaining to disinformation vs mainstream news by solely inspecting their diffusion mechanisms on Twitter. Our technique is inherently simple compared to existing text-based approaches, as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Francesco Pierri , Carlo Piccardi , Stefano Ceri

Social media platforms have become key channels for spreading and tracking rumors due to their widespread accessibility and ease of information sharing. Rumors can continuously emerge across diverse domains and topics, often with the intent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohadeseh Sheikhqoraei , Zainabolhoda Heshmati , Zeinab Rajabi , Leila Rabiei

Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, has become one of the most important channels for information dissemination. However, these social media platforms are often misused to spread rumors, which has brought about severe social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Shuai Wang , Qingchao Kong , Yuqi Wang , Lei Wang

With the growing popularity and ease of access to the internet, the problem of online rumors is escalating. People are relying on social media to gain information readily but fall prey to false information. There is a lack of credibility…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Chahat Raj , Priyanka Meel

Social media is a popular platform for timely information sharing. One of the important challenges for social media platforms like Twitter is whether to trust news shared on them when there is no systematic news verification process. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Chandra Mouli Madhav Kotteti , Xishuang Dong , Lijun Qian

Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and fake news. Many efforts have been taken to detect and debunk…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Quanzhi Li , Qiong Zhang , Luo Si , Yingchi Liu

In the absence of an authoritative statement about a rumor, people may expose the truth behind such rumor through their responses on social media. Most rumor detection methods aggregate the information of all the responses and have made…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jun Li , Yi Bin , Liang Peng , Yang Yang , Yangyang Li , Hao Jin , Zi Huang

Abusive language detection has become an increasingly important task as a means to tackle this type of harmful content in social media. There has been a substantial body of research developing models for determining if a social media post…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Raneem Alharthi , Rajwa Alharthi , Aiqi Jiang , Arkaitz Zubiaga

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 2019-02-20 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , Gabriele Ballarin , Stefano Moret , Massimo Di Pierro , Eugenio Tacchini , Marco L. Della Vedova

Rumours have existed for a long time and have been known for serious consequences. The rapid growth of social media platforms has multiplied the negative impact of rumours; it thus becomes important to early detect them. Many methods have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Tien Huu Do , Xiao Luo , Duc Minh Nguyen , Nikos Deligiannis

The propagation of rumours on social media poses an important threat to societies, so that various techniques for rumour detection have been proposed recently. Yet, existing work focuses on \emph{what} entities constitute a rumour, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Cong Phan , Minh Hieu Nguyen , Matthias Weidlich , Hongzhi Yin , Jun Jo , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

To manage the rumors in social media to reduce the harm of rumors in society. Many studies used methods of deep learning to detect rumors in open networks. To comprehensively sort out the research status of rumor detection from multiple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Li Tan , Ge Wang , Feiyang Jia , Xiaofeng Lian

This article proposes a biologically inspired neurocomputational architecture which learns associations between words and referents in different contexts, considering evidence collected from the literature of Psycholinguistics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Hansenclever F. Bassani , Aluizio F. R. Araujo

In this work, we investigate to use Large Language Models (LLMs) for rumor detection on social media. However, it is challenging for LLMs to reason over the entire propagation information on social media, which contains news contents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Qiang Liu , Xiang Tao , Junfei Wu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Fake news on social media is a widespread and serious problem in today's society. Existing fake news detection methods focus on finding clues from Long text content, such as original news articles and user comments. This paper solves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

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

The truth is significantly hampered by massive rumors that spread along with breaking news or popular topics. Since there is sufficient corpus gathered from the same domain for model training, existing rumor detection algorithms show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Ruichao Yang , Zhiwei Yang , Mingfei Cheng

With the rise of social media, rumor detection has drawn increasing attention. Although numerous methods have been proposed with the development of rumor classification datasets, they focus on identifying whether a post is a rumor, lacking…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bin Ma , Yifei Zhang , Yongjin Xian , Qi Li , Linna Zhou , Gongxun Miao

With the development of social media networks, rumor detection models have attracted more and more attention. Whereas, these models primarily focus on classifying contexts as rumors or not, lacking the capability to locate and mark specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bin Ma , Yifei Zhang , Yongjin Xian , Qi Li , Linna Zhou , Gongxun Miao