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COVID-19 pandemic has generated what public health officials called an infodemic of misinformation. As social distancing and stay-at-home orders came into effect, many turned to social media for socializing. This increase in social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mir Mehedi A. Pritom , Rosana Montanez Rodriguez , Asad Ali Khan , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Esra'a Alrashydah , Beatrice N. Ruiz , Anthony Rios

Humanity is battling one of the most deleterious virus in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic, but along with the pandemic there's an infodemic permeating the pupil and society with misinformation which exacerbates the current malady. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Prathmesh Pathwar , Simran Gill

The present paper is about the participation of our team "techno" on CERIST'22 shared tasks. We used an available dataset "task1.c" related to covid-19 pandemic. It comprises 4128 tweets for sentiment analysis task and 8661 tweets for fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rabia Bounaama , Mohammed El Amine Abderrahim

Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an `infodemic'. Fake news and rumors are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm. This is further exacerbated at the time of a pandemic. To tackle this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Parth Patwa , Shivam Sharma , Srinivas Pykl , Vineeth Guptha , Gitanjali Kumari , Md Shad Akhtar , Asif Ekbal , Amitava Das , Tanmoy Chakraborty

COVID-19 impacted every part of the world, although the misinformation about the outbreak traveled faster than the virus. Misinformation spread through online social networks (OSN) often misled people from following correct medical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mohammad Majid Akhtar , Bibhas Sharma , Ishan Karunanayake , Rahat Masood , Muhammad Ikram , Salil S. Kanhere

The sharing of fake news and conspiracy theories on social media has wide-spread negative effects. By designing and applying different machine learning models, researchers have made progress in detecting fake news from text. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Haoming Guo , Tianyi Huang , Huixuan Huang , Mingyue Fan , Gerald Friedland

Fake news has emerged as a critical global issue, magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the need for effective preventive tools. Leveraging machine learning, including deep learning techniques, offers promise in combatting fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Dylan Warman , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Online news and information sources are convenient and accessible ways to learn about current issues. For instance, more than 300 million people engage with posts on Twitter globally, which provides the possibility to disseminate misleading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Aos Mulahuwaish , Manish Osti , Kevin Gyorick , Majdi Maabreh , Ajay Gupta , Basheer Qolomany

Fake news on social media has become a hot topic of research as it negatively impacts the discourse of real news in the public. Specifically, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise of inaccurate and misleading information due to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

Nowadays, the development of social media allows people to access the latest news easily. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important for people to access the news so that they can take corresponding protective measures. However, the fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Yuxiang Wang , Yongheng Zhang , Xuebo Li , Xinyao Yu

The rapid advancement of technology in online communication via social media platforms has led to a prolific rise in the spread of misinformation and fake news. Fake news is especially rampant in the current COVID-19 pandemic, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Rutvik Vijjali , Prathyush Potluri , Siddharth Kumar , Sundeep Teki

While misinformation and disinformation have been thriving in social media for years, with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the health misinformation merged, thus elevating the problem to a whole new level and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Alex Nikolov , Giovanni Da San Martino , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

The FakeNews task in MediaEval 2022 investigates the challenge of finding accurate and high-performance models for the classification of conspiracy tweets related to COVID-19. In this paper, we used BERT, ELMO, and their combination for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Abdul Rehman , Rabeeh Ayaz Abbasi , Irfan ul Haq Qureshi , Akmal Saeed Khattak

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an infodemic where an overwhelming amount of COVID-19 related content was being disseminated at high velocity through social media. This made it challenging for citizens to differentiate between accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yida Mu , Ye Jiang , Freddy Heppell , Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

This paper formulates the problem of dynamically identifying key topics with proper labels from COVID-19 Tweets to provide an overview of wider public opinion. Nowadays, social media is one of the best ways to connect people through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Khandaker Tayef Shahriar , Iqbal H. Sarker , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Mohammad Ali Moni

The rise of social media has ignited an unprecedented circulation of false information in our society. It is even more evident in times of crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Fact-checking efforts have expanded greatly and have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Wilson Ceron , Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos , Marcos G. Quiles

Spreading of misleading information on social web platforms has fuelled huge panic and confusion among the public regarding the Corona disease, the detection of which is of paramount importance. To address this issue, in this paper, we have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Deepika Varshney , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

Withtheadventofsocialmedia,therehasbeenanextremely rapid increase in the content shared online. Consequently, the propagation of fake news and hostile messages on social media platforms has also skyrocketed. In this paper, we address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Ayush Gupta , Rohan Sukumaran , Kevin John , Sundeep Teki

Fake tweets are observed to be ever-increasing, demanding immediate countermeasures to combat their spread. During COVID-19, tweets with misinformation should be flagged and neutralized in their early stages to mitigate the damages. Most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rachit Bansal , William Scott Paka , Nidhi , Shubhashis Sengupta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

The sudden widespread menace created by the present global pandemic COVID-19 has had an unprecedented effect on our lives. Man-kind is going through humongous fear and dependence on social media like never before. Fear inevitably leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Debanjana Kar , Mohit Bhardwaj , Suranjana Samanta , Amar Prakash Azad