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Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

The proliferation of fake news, i.e., news intentionally spread for misinformation, poses a threat to individuals and society. Despite various fact-checking websites such as PolitiFact, robust detection techniques are required to deal with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Bimal Bhattarai , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Lei Jiao

Fake news has become omnipresent in digitalized areas such as social media platforms. While being disseminated online, it also poses a threat to individuals and societies offline, for example, in the context of democratic elections.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Enrico Bunde , Niklas Kühl , Christian Meske

Detection of fake news is crucial to ensure the authenticity of information and maintain the news ecosystems reliability. Recently, there has been an increase in fake news content due to the recent proliferation of social media and fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Pallabi Saikia , Kshitij Gundale , Ankit Jain , Dev Jadeja , Harvi Patel , Mohendra Roy

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

In the past few years, the research community has dedicated growing interest to the issue of false news circulating on social networks. The widespread attention on detecting and characterizing false news has been motivated by considerable…

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

Fake news significantly influence our society. They impact consumers, voters, and many other societal groups. While Fake News exist for a centuries, Generative AI brings fake news on a new level. It is now possible to automate the creation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Alexander Loth , Martin Kappes , Marc-Oliver Pahl

The proliferation of fake news has become a significant concern in recent times due to its potential to spread misinformation and manipulate public opinion. This paper presents a comprehensive study on detecting fake news in Brazilian…

Social networks have become one of the main information channels for human beings due to the immediate and social interactivity they offer, allowing in some cases to publish what each user considers relevant. This has brought with it the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Luis Rojas Rubio , Claudio Meneses Villegas

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 wide spread of false information online including misinformation and disinformation has become a major problem for our highly digitised and globalised society. A lot of research has been done to better understand different aspects of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Haiyue Yuan , Enes Altuncu , Shujun Li , Can Baskent

The fake news epidemic makes it imperative to develop a diagnostic framework that is both parsimonious and valid to guide present and future efforts in fake news detection. This paper represents one of the very first attempts to fill a void…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Murphy Choy , Mark Chong

This paper explores an automatic news generation and fact-checking system based on language processing, aimed at enhancing the efficiency and quality of news production while ensuring the authenticity and reliability of the news content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Xirui Peng , Qiming Xu , Zheng Feng , Haopeng Zhao , Lianghao Tan , Yan Zhou , Zecheng Zhang , Chenwei Gong , Yingqiao Zheng

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

One very common type of fake news is satire which comes in a form of a news website or an online platform that parodies reputable real news agencies to create a sarcastic version of reality. This type of fake news is often disseminated by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Hadeel Saadany , Emad Mohamed , Constantin Orasan

Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture. It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations. Using automatic machine learning classification models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

The proliferation of fake news poses a significant threat not only by disseminating misleading information but also by undermining the very foundations of democracy. The recent advance of generative artificial intelligence has further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Cheng Niu , Yang Guan , Yuanhao Wu , Juno Zhu , Juntong Song , Randy Zhong , Kaihua Zhu , Siliang Xu , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

Over the past couple of years, the topic of "fake news" and its influence over people's opinions has become a growing cause for concern. Although the spread of disinformation on the Internet is not a new phenomenon, the widespread use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jillian Tompkins

The increasing popularity of social media promotes the proliferation of fake news, which has caused significant negative societal effects. Therefore, fake news detection on social media has recently become an emerging research area of great…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Juan Cao , Peng Qi , Qiang Sheng , Tianyun Yang , Junbo Guo , Jintao Li

Online fake news moderation now faces a new challenge brought by the malicious use of large language models (LLMs) in fake news production. Though existing works have shown LLM-generated fake news is hard to detect from an individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Beizhe Hu , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Yang Li , Danding Wang