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Fake news is a severe problem in social media. In this paper, we present an empirical study on visual, textual, and multimodal models for the tasks of claim, claim check-worthiness, and conspiracy detection, all of which are related to fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

Fake news detection algorithms apply machine learning to various news attributes and their relationships. However, their success is usually evaluated based on how the algorithm performs on a static benchmark, independent of real users. On…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bruno Tafur , Advait Sarkar

Fake news is pervasive on social media, inflicting substantial harm on public discourse and societal well-being. We investigate the explicit structural information and textual features of news pieces by constructing a heterogeneous graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuchen Zhang , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Hao Fan

The abundance of information in digital media, which in today's world is the main source of knowledge about current events for the masses, makes it possible to spread disinformation on a larger scale than ever before. Consequently, there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Leś , Paweł Zyblewski , Paweł Ksieniewicz , Michał Woźniak

With the development of the E-commerce and reviews website, the comment information is influencing people's life. More and more users share their consumption experience and evaluate the quality of commodity by comment. When people make a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Su Chang , Xu Zhenzhong , Gao Xuan

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machine learning-based methods for detecting such fake news,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Dimitris Spithouris , Evangelos P. Markatos , Nicolas Kourtellis

While the world has been combating COVID-19 for over three years, an ongoing "Infodemic" due to the spread of fake news regarding the pandemic has also been a global issue. The existence of the fake news impact different aspect of our daily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chih-Yuan Li , Navya Martin Kollapally , Soon Ae Chun , James Geller

Factchecking has always been a part of the journalistic process. However with newsroom budgets shrinking it is coming under increasing pressure just as the amount of false information circulating is on the rise. We therefore propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Ben Adler , Giacomo Boscaini-Gilroy

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 serves as a primary source of information in the current digital era. Many people consume a vast range of information in a very short span, yet, amidst the stream of genuine information, fake news and rumors continue to spread.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sai Keerthana Karnam , Abhirup Kundu , Jashn Arora , Manish Jain , Animesh Mukherjee

Fake news spreads widely on social media, leading to numerous negative effects. Most existing detection algorithms focus on analyzing news content and social context to detect fake news. However, these approaches typically detect fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Congyuan Zhao , Lingwei Wei , Ziming Qin , Wei Zhou , Yunya Song , Songlin Hu

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

Large-scale dissemination of disinformation online intended to mislead or deceive the general population is a major societal problem. Rapid progression in image, video, and natural language generative models has only exacerbated this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Reuben Tan , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko

False news has received attention from both the general public and the scholarly world. Such false information has the ability to affect public perception, giving nefarious groups the chance to influence the results of public events like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Biplob Kumar Sutradhar , Md. Zonaid , Nushrat Jahan Ria , Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

In today's technologically driven world, the rapid spread of fake news, particularly during critical events like elections, poses a growing threat to the integrity of information. To tackle this challenge head-on, we introduce FakeWatch, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shaina Raza , Tahniat Khan , Veronica Chatrath , Drai Paulen-Patterson , Mizanur Rahman , Oluwanifemi Bamgbose

Detecting false information on social media is critical in mitigating its negative societal impacts. To reduce the propagation of false information, automated detection provide scalable, unbiased, and cost-effective methods. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Sarah Condran

Nowadays social media is the primary platform for people to obtain news and share information. Combating online fake news has become an urgent task to reduce the damage it causes to society. Existing methods typically improve their fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xing Su , Jian Yang , Jia Wu , Zitai Qiu

Recent works on fake news detection have shown the efficacy of using emotions as a feature for improved performance. However, the cross-domain impact of emotion-guided features for fake news detection still remains an open problem. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Arkajyoti Chakraborty , Inder Khatri , Arjun Choudhry , Pankaj Gupta , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma , Mukesh Prasad

The threat that online fake news and misinformation pose to democracy, justice, public confidence, and especially to vulnerable populations, has led to a sharp increase in the need for fake news detection and intervention. Whether…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhaoyang Cao , John Nguyen , Reza Zafarani

As the Internet and social media evolve rapidly, distinguishing credible news from a vast amount of complex information poses a significant challenge. Due to the suddenness and instability of news events, the authenticity labels of news can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Di Jin , Jun Yang , Xiaobao Wang , Junwei Zhang , Shuqi Li , Dongxiao He