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Fake news has now grown into a big problem for societies and also a major challenge for people fighting disinformation. This phenomenon plagues democratic elections, reputations of individual persons or organizations, and has negatively…

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…

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The use of content features, particularly textual and linguistic for fake news detection is under-researched, despite empirical evidence showing the features could contribute to differentiating real and fake news. To this end, this study…

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Identification of Fake News plays a prominent role in the ongoing pandemic, impacting multiple aspects of day-to-day life. In this work we present a solution to the shared task titled COVID19 Fake News Detection in English, scoring the 50th…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Boshko Koloski , Timen Stepišnik Perdih , Senja Pollak , Blaž Škrlj

Nowadays, People prefer to follow the latest news on social media, as it is cheap, easily accessible, and quickly disseminated. However, it can spread fake or unreliable, low-quality news that intentionally contains false information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zainab A. Jawad , Ahmed J. Obaid

People now see social media sites as their sole source of information due to their popularity. The Majority of people get their news through social media. At the same time, fake news has grown exponentially on social media platforms in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Athira A B , S D Madhu Kumar , Anu Mary Chacko

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…

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As the digital news industry becomes the main channel of information dissemination, the adverse impact of fake news is explosively magnified. The credibility of a news report should not be considered in isolation. Rather, previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Wenjia Zhang , Lin Gui , Yulan He

With the proliferation of social media, the detection of fake news has become a critical issue that poses a significant threat to society. The dissemination of fake information can lead to social harm and damage the credibility of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Qian Chang , Xia Lia , Patrick S. W. Fong

Fake news detection is a very prominent and essential task in the field of journalism. This challenging problem is seen so far in the field of politics, but it could be even more challenging when it is to be determined in the multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Tanik Saikh , Arkadipta De , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

With social media being a major force in information consumption, accelerated propagation of fake news has presented new challenges for platforms to distinguish between legitimate and fake news. Effective fake news detection is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Mansooreh Karami , Kai Shu , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

Fake news is a type of pervasive propaganda that spreads misinformation online, taking advantage of social media's extensive reach to manipulate public perception. Over the past three years, fake news has become a focal discussion point in…

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Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

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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…

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The availability and interactive nature of social media have made them the primary source of news around the globe. The popularity of social media tempts criminals to pursue their immoral intentions by producing and disseminating fake news…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-29 Faeze Ghorbanpour , Maryam Ramezani , Mohammad A. Fazli , Hamid R. Rabiee

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…

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The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 has caused humanity to come to a stand-still and brought with it a plethora of other problems. COVID-19 is the first pandemic in history when humanity is the most technologically advanced and relies heavily on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 S. M. Sadiq-Ur-Rahman Shifath , Mohammad Faiyaz Khan , Md. Saiful Islam

Fake News on social media platforms has attracted a lot of attention in recent times, primarily for events related to politics (2016 US Presidential elections), healthcare (infodemic during COVID-19), to name a few. Various methods have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mohit Mayank , Shakshi Sharma , Rajesh Sharma

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…

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