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Cognitive and social traits of individuals are reflected in language use. Moreover, individuals who are prone to spread fake news online often share common traits. Building on these ideas, we introduce a model that creates representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Marco Del Tredici , Raquel Fernández

Fake news can significantly misinform people who often rely on online sources and social media for their information. Current research on fake news detection has mostly focused on analyzing fake news content and how it propagates on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Niraj Sitaula , Chilukuri K. Mohan , Jennifer Grygiel , Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

We study the problem of automatic fact-checking, paying special attention to the impact of contextual and discourse information. We address two related tasks: (i) detecting check-worthy claims, and (ii) fact-checking claims. We develop…

With the rise of social media, it has become easier to disseminate fake news faster and cheaper, compared to traditional news media, such as television and newspapers. Recently this phenomenon has attracted lot of public attention, because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Shahid Alam , Abdulaziz Ravshanbekov

Natural Language Processing and Generation systems have recently shown the potential to complement and streamline the costly and time-consuming job of professional fact-checkers. In this work, we lift several constraints of current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Daniel Russo , Stefano Menini , Jacopo Staiano , Marco Guerini

The generation and spread of fake news within new and online media sources is emerging as a phenomenon of high societal significance. Combating them using data-driven analytics has been attracting much recent scholarly interest. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Iknoor Singh , Deepak P , Anoop K

Automatic fake news detection models are ostensibly based on logic, where the truth of a claim made in a headline can be determined by supporting or refuting evidence found in a resulting web query. These models are believed to be reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Ian Kelk , Benjamin Basseri , Wee Yi Lee , Richard Qiu , Chris Tanner

Recent advances in generative models for language have enabled the creation of convincing synthetic text or deepfake text. Prior work has demonstrated the potential for misuse of deepfake text to mislead content consumers. Therefore,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jiameng Pu , Zain Sarwar , Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Abdullah Rehman , Yoonjin Kim , Parantapa Bhattacharya , Mobin Javed , Bimal Viswanath

While there has been substantial progress in developing systems to automate fact-checking, they still lack credibility in the eyes of the users. Thus, an interesting approach has emerged: to perform automatic fact-checking by verifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Momchil Hardalov , Anton Chernyavskiy , Ivan Koychev , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Preslav Nakov

Despite recent success in natural language processing (NLP), fact verification still remains a difficult task. Due to misinformation spreading increasingly fast, attention has been directed towards automatically verifying the correctness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tobias A. Opsahl

Social media has become a popular means for people to consume news. Meanwhile, it also enables the wide dissemination of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information, which brings significant negative effects to the society.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Kai Shu , Deepak Mahudeswaran , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

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

The rising growth of fake news and misleading information through online media outlets demands an automatic method for detecting such news articles. Of the few limited works which differentiate between trusted vs other types of news article…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vaibhav Vaibhav , Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Eduard Hovy

We propose a novel system to help fact-checkers formulate search queries for known misinformation claims and effectively search across multiple social media platforms. We introduce an adaptable rewriting strategy, where editing actions for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ashkan Kazemi , Artem Abzaliev , Naihao Deng , Rui Hou , Scott A. Hale , Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Rada Mihalcea

Fact verification models have enjoyed a fast advancement in the last two years with the development of pre-trained language models like BERT and the release of large scale datasets such as FEVER. However, the challenging problem of fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qifei Li , Wangchunshu Zhou

With the remarkable development of large language models (LLMs), ensuring the factuality of output has become a challenge. However, having all the contents of the response with given knowledge or facts is not necessarily a good thing in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ryohei Kamei , Daiki Shiono , Reina Akama , Jun Suzuki

Connectivity plays an ever-increasing role in modern society, with people all around the world having easy access to rapidly disseminated information. However, a more interconnected society enables the spread of intentionally false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 João Vitorino , Tiago Dias , Tiago Fonseca , Nuno Oliveira , Isabel Praça

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

Massive dissemination of fake news and its potential to erode democracy has increased the demand for accurate fake news detection. Recent advancements in this area have proposed novel techniques that aim to detect fake news by exploring how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Xinyi Zhou , Atishay Jain , Vir V. Phoha , Reza Zafarani