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Large numbers of people use Social Networking Services (SNS) for easy access to various news, but they have more opportunities to obtain and share ``fake news'' carrying false information. Partially to combat fake news, several…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Taichi Murayama , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Over the past decade it has become evident that intentional disinformation in the political context -- so-called fake news -- is a danger to democracy. However, until now there has been no clear understanding of how to define fake news,…

Applications · Statistics 2021-12-01 Dorje C. Brody , David M. Meier

Satirical news is real news combined with a humorous comment or exaggerated content, and it often mimics the format and style of real news. However, satirical news is often misunderstood as misinformation, especially by individuals from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Omar W. Abdalla , Aditya Joshi , Rahat Masood , Salil S. Kanhere

In recent years, the reliability of information on the Internet has emerged as a crucial issue of modern society. Social network sites (SNSs) have revolutionized the way in which information is spread by allowing users to freely share…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Eugenio Tacchini , Gabriele Ballarin , Marco L. Della Vedova , Stefano Moret , Luca de Alfaro

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

False information spreads on social media, and fact-checking is a potential countermeasure. However, there is a severe shortage of fact-checkers; an efficient way to scale fact-checking is desperately needed, especially in pandemics like…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Kunihiro Miyazaki , Takayuki Uchiba , Kenji Tanaka , Jisun An , Haewoon Kwak , Kazutoshi Sasahara

The spread of fake news has long been a social issue and the necessity of identifying it has become evident since its dangers are well recognized. In addition to causing uneasiness among the public, it has even more devastating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxuan Tian

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

Satirical news detection is an important yet challenging task to prevent spread of misinformation. Many feature based and end-to-end neural nets based satirical news detection systems have been proposed and delivered promising results.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yue Zhou , Yan Zhang , JingTao Yao

Parody is a figurative device used to imitate an entity for comedic or critical purposes and represents a widespread phenomenon in social media through many popular parody accounts. In this paper, we present the first computational study of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Antonis Maronikolakis , Danae Sanchez Villegas , Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro , Nikolaos Aletras

The rising growth of fake news and misleading information through online media outlets demands an automatic method for detecting such news articles. Of the few limited works which differentiate between trusted vs other types of news article…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vaibhav Vaibhav , Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Eduard Hovy

We propose that social-media users' own post histories are an underused yet valuable resource for studying fake-news sharing. By extracting textual cues from their prior posts, and contrasting their prevalence against random social-media…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Verena Schoenmueller , Simon J. Blanchard , Gita V. Johar

In recent years, due to the booming development of online social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, online social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jiawei Zhang , Bowen Dong , Philip S. Yu

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 problem associated with the propagation of fake news continues to grow at an alarming scale. This trend has generated much interest from politics to academia and industry alike. We propose a framework that detects and classifies fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Oluwaseun Ajao , Deepayan Bhowmik , Shahrzad Zargari

The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a significant threat to the integrity of information dissemination, particularly on social media platforms. Misinformation can spread quickly due to the ease of creating and disseminating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mesay Gemeda Yigezu , Melkamu Abay Mersha , Girma Yohannis Bade , Jugal Kalita , Olga Kolesnikova , Alexander Gelbukh

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

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

The present level of proliferation of fake, biased, and propagandistic content online has made it impossible to fact-check every single suspicious claim or article, either manually or automatically. Thus, many researchers are shifting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Preslav Nakov , Husrev Taha Sencar , Jisun An , Haewoon Kwak

The concept of truth, as a public good is the production of a collective understanding, which emerges from a complex network of social interactions. The recent impact of social networks on shaping the perception of truth in political arena…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Abbas Ehsanfar , Mo Mansouri