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Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kai Shu , Guoqing Zheng , Yichuan Li , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Scott Ruston , Huan Liu

Effective detection of fake news has recently attracted significant attention. Current studies have made significant contributions to predicting fake news with less focus on exploiting the relationship (similarity) between the textual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Xinyi Zhou , Jindi Wu , Reza Zafarani

Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony and affect society, especially when dealing with an epidemic like COVID-19. The task of Fake News Detection aims to tackle the effects of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mrinal Rawat , Diptesh Kanojia

Digital information exchange enables quick creation and sharing of information and thus changes existing habits. Social media is becoming the main source of news for end-users replacing traditional media. This also enables the proliferation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Aljaž Zrnec , Marko Poženel , Dejan Lavbič

The proliferation of low-quality online information in today's era has underscored the need for robust and automatic mechanisms to evaluate the trustworthiness of online news publishers. In this paper, we analyse the trustworthiness of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-04 John Bianchi , Manuel Pratelli , Marinella Petrocchi , Fabio Pinelli

In recent years, with the expansion of the Internet and attractive social media infrastructures, people prefer to follow the news through these media. Despite the many advantages of these media in the news field, the lack of any control and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ali Jarrahi , Leila Safari

Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. However, social media also enables the widespread of fake news. Because of its detrimental effects brought by social media, fake news detection has attracted increasing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kai Shu , Deepak Mahudeswaran , Suhang Wang , Huan Liu

Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. Social media appeals to users due to its fast dissemination of information, low cost, and easy access. However, social media also enables the widespread of fake news.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Kai Shu , Xinyi Zhou , Suhang Wang , Reza Zafarani , Huan Liu

The use of social media platforms has been gradually increasing and fake news spreading is becoming an alarming issue nowadays. The spreading of fake news means disseminating false, confusing, and spurious information which hurts families,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Umme Faria Moon , MD Ahsan Habib Rasel , Md. Musfique Anwar

With the growth of the internet, the number of fake-news online has been proliferating every year. The consequences of such phenomena are manifold, ranging from lousy decision-making process to bullying and violence episodes. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Diego Esteves , Aniketh Janardhan Reddy , Piyush Chawla , Jens Lehmann

Fake news detection research is still in the early stage as this is a relatively new phenomenon in the interest raised by society. Machine learning helps to solve complex problems and to build AI systems nowadays and especially in those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Sajjad Ahmed , Knut Hinkelmann , Flavio Corradini

'Fake News' continues to undermine trust in modern journalism and politics. Despite continued efforts to study fake news, results have been conflicting. Previous attempts to analyse and combat fake news have largely focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Emilie Francis

With the current shift in the mass media landscape from journalistic rigor to social media, personalized social media is becoming the new norm. Although the digitalization progress of the media brings many advantages, it also increases the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

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 2018-03-07 Luca de Alfaro , Massimo Di Pierro , Rakshit Agrawal , Eugenio Tacchini , Gabriele Ballarin , Marco L. Della Vedova , Stefano Moret

We present a study on predicting the factuality of reporting and bias of news media. While previous work has focused on studying the veracity of claims or documents, here we are interested in characterizing entire news media. These are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Ramy Baly , Georgi Karadzhov , Dimitar Alexandrov , James Glass , Preslav Nakov

Over the past decade, fake news and misinformation have turned into a major problem that has impacted different aspects of our lives, including politics and public health. Inspired by natural human behavior, we present an approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zahra Ghadiri , Milad Ranjbar , Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad , Sadegh Raeisi

Our work considers leveraging crowd signals for detecting fake news and is motivated by tools recently introduced by Facebook that enable users to flag fake news. By aggregating users' flags, our goal is to select a small subset of news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Sebastian Tschiatschek , Adish Singla , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Arpit Merchant , Andreas Krause

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

With the advent of social media, an increasing number of netizens are sharing and reading posts and news online. However, the huge volumes of misinformation (e.g., fake news and rumors) that flood the internet can adversely affect people's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zhiwei Liu , Tianlin Zhang , Kailai Yang , Paul Thompson , Zeping Yu , Sophia Ananiadou

Social media is interactive, and interaction brings misinformation. With the growing amount of user-generated data, fake news on online platforms has become much frequent since the arrival of social networks. Now and then, an event occurs…

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