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Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology development has facilitated the creation of rumors with misinformation, impacting societal, economic, and political ecosystems, challenging democracy. Current rumor detection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Junhao Xu , Longdi Xian , Zening Liu , Mingliang Chen , Qiuyang Yin , Fenghua Song

Over the past years, a large number of fake news detection algorithms based on deep learning have emerged. However, they are often developed under different frameworks, each mandating distinct utilization methodologies, consequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yiyuan Zhu , Yongjun Li , Jialiang Wang , Ming Gao , Jiali Wei

Social media platforms are vulnerable to fake news dissemination, which causes negative consequences such as panic and wrong medication in the healthcare domain. Therefore, it is important to automatically detect fake news in an early stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Ipek Baris , Zeyd Boukhers

Developing algorithms to differentiate between machine-generated texts and human-written texts has garnered substantial attention in recent years. Existing methods in this direction typically concern an offline setting where a dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Can Chen , Jun-Kun Wang

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

The viral spread of fake news has caused great social harm, making fake news detection an urgent task. Current fake news detection methods rely heavily on text information by learning the extracted news content or writing style of internal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

Social media becomes the central way for people to obtain and utilise news, due to its rapidness and inexpensive value of data distribution. Though, such features of social media platforms also present it a root cause of fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Priyanka Meel , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Recent years have seen an explosion in social media usage, allowing people to connect with others. Since the appearance of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, such platforms influence how we speak, think, and behave. This problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Taminul Islam , MD Alamin Hosen , Akhi Mony , MD Touhid Hasan , Israt Jahan , Arindom Kundu

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

Fake news is risky since it has been created to manipulate the readers' opinions and beliefs. In this work, we compared the language of false news to the real one of real news from an emotional perspective, considering a set of false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Bilal Ghanem , Paolo Rosso , Francisco Rangel

The rapid spread of fake news presents a significant global challenge, particularly in low-resource languages like Bangla, which lack adequate datasets and detection tools. Although manual fact-checking is accurate, it is expensive and slow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hrithik Majumdar Shibu , Shrestha Datta , Md. Sumon Miah , Nasrullah Sami , Mahruba Sharmin Chowdhury , Md. Saiful Islam

The wide spread of fake news in social networks is posing threats to social stability, economic development and political democracy etc. Numerous studies have explored the effective detection approaches of online fake news, while few works…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Bin Guo , Yasan Ding , Yueheng Sun , Shuai Ma , Ke Li

Fake news may be intentionally created to promote economic, political and social interests, and can lead to negative impacts on humans beliefs and decisions. Hence, detection of fake news is an emerging problem that has become extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gisel Bastidas Guacho , Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Recent LLMs are able to generate high-quality multilingual texts, indistinguishable for humans from authentic human-written ones. Research in machine-generated text detection is however mostly focused on the English language and longer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Dominik Macko , Jakub Kopal , Robert Moro , Ivan Srba

Given the volume and speed at which fake news spreads across social media, automatic fake news detection has become a highly important task. However, this task presents several challenges, including extracting textual features that contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ingryd V. S. T. Pereira , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Rafael M. O. Cruz

Although significant effort has been applied to fact-checking, the prevalence of fake news over social media, which has profound impact on justice, public trust and our society, remains a serious problem. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Yi Han , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

Automated fact checking systems have been proposed that quickly provide veracity prediction at scale to mitigate the negative influence of fake news on people and on public opinion. However, most studies focus on veracity classifiers of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Shih-Chieh Dai , Yi-Li Hsu , Aiping Xiong , Lun-Wei Ku

The unmoderated nature of social media enables the diffusion of hoaxes, which in turn jeopardises the credibility of information gathered from social media platforms. Existing research on automated detection of hoaxes has the limitation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Aiqi Jiang

The growing prevalence of counterfeit stories on the internet has fostered significant interest towards fast and scalable detection of fake news in the machine learning community. While several machine learning techniques for this purpose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Aftab Hussain , Sai Durga Prasad Nanduri , Sneha Seenuvasavarathan

The spread of fake news on online social networks (OSNs) has become a matter of concern. These platforms are also used for propagating important authentic information. Thus, there is a need for mitigating fake news without significantly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Suyog Kapsikar , Indrajit Saha , Khushboo Agarwal , Veeraruna Kavitha , Quanyan Zhu