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Identifying the veracity of a news article is an interesting problem while automating this process can be a challenging task. Detection of a news article as fake is still an open question as it is contingent on many factors which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Gaurav Bhatt , Aman Sharma , Shivam Sharma , Ankush Nagpal , Balasubramanian Raman , Ankush Mittal

Online social networking sites are experimenting with the following crowd-powered procedure to reduce the spread of fake news and misinformation: whenever a user is exposed to a story through her feed, she can flag the story as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Jooyeon Kim , Behzad Tabibian , Alice Oh , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez

Individuals can be misled by fake news and spread it unintentionally without knowing it is false. This phenomenon has been frequently observed but has not been investigated. Our aim in this work is to assess the intent of fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xinyi Zhou , Kai Shu , Vir V. Phoha , Huan Liu , Reza Zafarani

Due to the extensive role of social networks in social media, it is easy for people to share the news, and it spreads faster than ever before. These platforms also have been exploited to share the rumor or fake information, which is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Akrati Saxena , Harsh Saxena , Ralucca Gera

The rapid increase in fake news, which causes significant damage to society, triggers many fake news related studies, including the development of fake news detection and fact verification techniques. The resources for these studies are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Taichi Murayama

Explainable fake news detection aims to assess the veracity of news claims while providing human-friendly explanations. Existing methods incorporating investigative journalism are often inefficient and struggle with breaking news. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Bo Wang , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Zhiwei Yang , Ruichao Yang , Yuan Tian , Yi Chang

The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for timely identification and containment of fake news, and mitigation of its widespread impact on public opinion. While much of the earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Karishma Sharma , Feng Qian , He Jiang , Natali Ruchansky , Ming Zhang , Yan Liu

The spread of fake news has caused great harm to society in recent years. So the quick detection of fake news has become an important task. Some current detection methods often model news articles and other related components as a static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Jin Ho Go , Alina Sari , Jiaojiao Jiang , Shuiqiao Yang , Sanjay Jha

Due to extensive spread of fake news on social and news media it became an emerging research topic now a days that gained attention. In the news media and social media the information is spread highspeed but without accuracy and hence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Sajjad Ahmed , Knut Hinkelmann , Flavio Corradini

With the rise of social media, the spread of fake news has become a significant concern, potentially misleading public perceptions and impacting social stability. Although deep learning methods like CNNs, RNNs, and Transformer-based models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shu Yin , Chao Gao , Zhen Wang

Social media for news consumption is becoming increasingly popular due to its easy access, fast dissemination, and low cost. However, social media also enable the wide propagation of "fake news", i.e., news with intentionally false…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Kai Shu , H. Russell Bernard , Huan Liu

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

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

The spread of digital disinformation (aka "fake news") is arguably one of the most significant threats on the Internet which can cause individual and societal harm of large scales. The susceptibility to fake news attacks hinges on whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Cagri Arisoy , Anuradha Mandal , Nitesh Saxena

In recent years, malicious information had an explosive growth in social media, with serious social and political backlashes. Recent important studies, featuring large-scale analyses, have produced deeper knowledge about this phenomenon,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francesco Pierri , Carlo Piccardi , Stefano Ceri

The online spreading of fake news is a major issue threatening entire societies. Much of this spreading is enabled by new media formats, namely social networks and online media sites. Researchers and practitioners have been trying to answer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jakub Simko , Patrik Racsko , Matus Tomlein , Martin Hanakova , Robert Moro , Maria Bielikova

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

Rapid information diffusion and large-scaled information cascades can enable the undesired spread of false information. A small-scaled false information outbreak may potentially lead to an infodemic. We propose a novel information diffusion…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ke Wang , Waheeb Yaqub , Abdallah Lakhdari , Basem Suleiman

Bias assessment of news sources is paramount for professionals, organizations, and researchers who rely on truthful evidence for information gathering and reporting. While certain bias indicators are discernible from content analysis,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Dairazalia Sánchez-Cortés , Sergio Burdisso , Esaú Villatoro-Tello , Petr Motlicek

In this modern era, communication has become faster and easier. This means fallacious information can spread as fast as reality. Considering the damage that fake news kindles on the psychology of people and the fact that such news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Amey Parundekar , Susan Elias , Ashwin Ashok