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Social media bot detection is increasingly crucial with the rise of social media platforms. Existing methods predominantly construct social networks as graph and utilize graph neural networks (GNNs) for bot detection. However, most of these…

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Social media has been rapidly developing in the public sphere due to its ease of spreading new information, which leads to the circulation of rumors. However, detecting rumors from such a massive amount of information is becoming an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ge Wang , Li Tan , Tianbao Song , Wei Wang , Ziliang Shang

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress towards computational fake news detection. To mitigate its negative impact, we argue that it is critical to understand what user attributes potentially cause users to share fake news. The key…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Lu Cheng , Ruocheng Guo , Kai Shu , Huan Liu

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for fake news detection. However, state-of-the-art approaches are usually trained on datasets of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Sahar Tahmasebi , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth , Eric Müller-Budack

The topic of fake news has drawn attention both from the public and the academic communities. Such misinformation has the potential of affecting public opinion, providing an opportunity for malicious parties to manipulate the outcomes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Natali Ruchansky , Sungyong Seo , Yan Liu

In the recent years, social media has grown to become a major source of information for many online users. This has given rise to the spread of misinformation through deepfakes. Deepfakes are videos or images that replace one persons face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jacob Mallet , Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Mounika Vanamala

The proliferation of misinformation in the digital age has led to significant societal challenges. Existing approaches often struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, complex semantic relations, and the social dynamics influencing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Shubham Gupta , Shraban Kumar Chatterjee , Suman Kundu

Abuse on the Internet represents a significant societal problem of our time. Previous research on automated abusive language detection in Twitter has shown that community-based profiling of users is a promising technique for this task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Pushkar Mishra , Marco Del Tredici , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in deception detection, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. However, statistical approaches to combating fake news has been dramatically limited by the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 William Yang Wang

Identifying the veracity of a news article is an interesting problem while automating this process can be a challenging task. Detection of a news article as fake is still an open question as it is contingent on many factors which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Gaurav Bhatt , Aman Sharma , Shivam Sharma , Ankush Nagpal , Balasubramanian Raman , Ankush Mittal

Recent advancements in deep learning generative models have raised concerns as they can create highly convincing counterfeit images and videos. This poses a threat to people's integrity and can lead to social instability. To address this…

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Today's social media platforms enable to spread both authentic and fake news very quickly. Some approaches have been proposed to automatically detect such "fake" news based on their content, but it is difficult to agree on universal…

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Fake news emerged as an apparent global problem during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Addressing it requires a multidisciplinary effort to define the nature and extent of the problem, detect fake news in real time, and mitigate its…

Social media is becoming a source of news for many people due to its ease and freedom of use. As a result, fake news has been spreading quickly and easily regardless of its credibility, especially in the last decade. Fake news publishers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ali Bou Nassif , Ashraf Elnagar , Omar Elgendy , Yaman Afadar

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

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

Despite recent advances in detecting fake news generated by neural models, their results are not readily applicable to effective detection of human-written disinformation. What limits the successful transfer between them is the sizable gap…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Kathleen McKeown , Preslav Nakov , Yejin Choi , Heng Ji

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

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

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