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Fake news significantly influences decision-making processes by misleading individuals, organizations, and even governments. Large language models (LLMs), as part of generative AI, can amplify this problem by generating highly convincing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lionel Z. Wang , Ka Chung Ng , Yiming Ma , Wenqi Fan

In recent years, fake news detection has received increasing attention in public debate and scientific research. Despite advances in detection techniques, the production and spread of false information have become more sophisticated, driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pietro Dell'Oglio , Alessandro Bondielli , Francesco Marcelloni , Lucia C. Passaro

Facially manipulated images and videos or DeepFakes can be used maliciously to fuel misinformation or defame individuals. Therefore, detecting DeepFakes is crucial to increase the credibility of social media platforms and other media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Paarth Neekhara , Brian Dolhansky , Joanna Bitton , Cristian Canton Ferrer

With the widespread use of the internet and handheld devices, social media now holds a power similar to that of old newspapers. People use social media platforms for quick and accessible information. However, this convenience comes with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Maria-Diana Cotelin , Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

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

Advanced neural language models (NLMs) are widely used in sequence generation tasks because they are able to produce fluent and meaningful sentences. They can also be used to generate fake reviews, which can then be used to attack online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Haotian Mai , Fuming Fang , Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

In the era of rapidly evolving large language models (LLMs), state-of-the-art rumor detection systems, particularly those based on Message Propagation Trees (MPTs), which represent a conversation tree with the post as its root and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mingqing Zhang , Qiang Liu , Xiang Tao , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

With news and information being as easy to access as they currently are, it is more important than ever to ensure that people are not mislead by what they read. Recently, the rise of neural fake news (AI-generated fake news) and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Ziqing Ji , Pranav Kulkarni , Marko Neskovic , Kevin Nolan , Yan Xu

Making disguise between real and fake news propagation through online social networks is an important issue in many applications. The time gap between the news release time and detection of its label is a significant step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Maryam Ramezani , Mina Rafiei , Soroush Omranpour , Hamid R. Rabiee

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

We propose multi-agent reinforcement learning as a new method for modeling fake news in social networks. This method allows us to model human behavior in social networks both in unaccustomed populations and in populations that have adapted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christoph Aymanns , Jakob Foerster , Co-Pierre Georg , Matthias Weber

With their advanced capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly convincing and contextually relevant fake news, which can contribute to disseminating misinformation. Though there is much research on fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rupak Kumar Das , Jonathan Dodge

The amount of news being consumed online has substantially expanded in recent years. Fake news has become increasingly common, especially in regional languages like Malayalam, due to the rapid publication and lack of editorial standards on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Adhish S. Sujan , Ajitha. V , Aleena Benny , Amiya M. P. , V. S. Anoop

Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost, easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume news from social media. On the other hand, it enables the wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kai Shu , Amy Sliva , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu

Deepfake or synthetic images produced using deep generative models pose serious risks to online platforms. This has triggered several research efforts to accurately detect deepfake images, achieving excellent performance on publicly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sifat Muhammad Abdullah , Aravind Cheruvu , Shravya Kanchi , Taejoong Chung , Peng Gao , Murtuza Jadliwala , Bimal Viswanath

Fake news, rumor, incorrect information, and misinformation detection are nowadays crucial issues as these might have serious consequences for our social fabrics. The rate of such information is increasing rapidly due to the availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Arjun Roy , Kingshuk Basak , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Explainable fake news detection predicts the authenticity of news items with annotated explanations. Today, Large Language Models (LLMs) are known for their powerful natural language understanding and explanation generation abilities.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yifeng Wang , Zhouhong Gu , Siwei Zhang , Suhang Zheng , Tao Wang , Tianyu Li , Hongwei Feng , Yanghua Xiao

With the rapid evolution of technology and the Internet, the proliferation of fake news on social media has become a critical issue, leading to widespread misinformation that can cause societal harm. Traditional fact checking methods are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mayank Kumar Jain , Dinesh Gopalani , Yogesh Kumar Meena , Nishant Jain

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

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