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The advances in the digital era have led to rapid dissemination of information. This has also aggravated the spread of misinformation and disinformation. This has potentially serious consequences, such as civil unrest. While fact-checking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Venktesh V , Vinay Setty

In this highly digitised world, fake news is a challenging problem that can cause serious harm to society. Considering how fast fake news can spread, automated methods, tools and services for assisting users to do fact-checking (i.e., fake…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Enes Altuncu , Jason R. C. Nurse , Meryem Bagriacik , Sophie Kaleba , Haiyue Yuan , Lisa Bonheme , Shujun Li

The wide spread of false information online including misinformation and disinformation has become a major problem for our highly digitised and globalised society. A lot of research has been done to better understand different aspects of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Haiyue Yuan , Enes Altuncu , Shujun Li , Can Baskent

It is widely accepted that so-called facts can be checked by searching for information on the Internet. This process requires a fact-checker to formulate a search query based on the fact and to present it to a search engine. Then, relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Nestor Prieto-Chavana , Julie Weeds , David Weir

The increasing prevalence of online misinformation has heightened the demand for automated fact-checking solutions. Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as potential tools for assisting in this task, but their effectiveness remains…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Nicolo' Fontana , Francesco Corso , Enrico Zuccolotto , Francesco Pierri

Factchecking has always been a part of the journalistic process. However with newsroom budgets shrinking it is coming under increasing pressure just as the amount of false information circulating is on the rise. We therefore propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Ben Adler , Giacomo Boscaini-Gilroy

Automated fact-checking is a needed technology to curtail the spread of online misinformation. One current framework for such solutions proposes to verify claims by retrieving supporting or refuting evidence from related textual sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yibing Du , Antoine Bosselut , Christopher D. Manning

With the rapid growth of online misinformation, it is crucial to have reliable fact-checking methods. Recent research on finding check-worthy claims and automated fact-checking have made significant advancements. However, limited guidance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Danula Hettiachchi , Kaixin Ji , Jenny Kennedy , Anthony McCosker , Flora D. Salim , Mark Sanderson , Falk Scholer , Damiano Spina

Online disinformation poses a global challenge, placing significant demands on fact-checkers who must verify claims efficiently to prevent the spread of false information. A major issue in this process is the redundant verification of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Ivan Vykopal , Martin Hyben , Robert Moro , Michal Gregor , Jakub Simko

Automated fact-checking is a crucial task in the governance of internet content. Although various studies utilize advanced models to tackle this issue, a significant gap persists in addressing complex real-world rumors and deceptive claims.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Wei-Yu Kao , An-Zi Yen

In fighting against fake news, many fact-checking systems comprised of human-based fact-checking sites (e.g., snopes.com and politifact.com) and automatic detection systems have been developed in recent years. However, online users still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee

Fact-checking has been promoted as a key method for combating political misinformation. Comparing the spread of election-related misinformation narratives along with their relevant political fact-checks, this study provides the most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Morgan Wack , Kayla Duskin , Damian Hodel

The rapid increase in fake news, which causes significant damage to society, triggers many fake news related studies, including the development of fake news detection and fact verification techniques. The resources for these studies are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Taichi Murayama

This paper reviews and summarizes the research results on fact-based fake news from the perspectives of tasks and problems, algorithm strategies, and datasets. First, the paper systematically explains the task definition and core problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yuzhou Yang , Yangming Zhou , Qichao Ying , Zhenxing Qian , Dan Zeng , Liang Liu

The dissemination of false information on online platforms presents a serious societal challenge. While manual fact-checking remains crucial, Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising opportunities to support fact-checkers with their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ivan Vykopal , Matúš Pikuliak , Simon Ostermann , Marián Šimko

In today's digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation poses threats to public well-being and societal trust. As online misinformation proliferates, manual verification by fact checkers becomes increasingly challenging. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

With the widespread consumption of AI-generated content, there has been an increased focus on developing automated tools to verify the factual accuracy of such content. However, prior research and tools developed for fact verification treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Varich Boonsanong , Vidhisha Balachandran , Xiaochuang Han , Shangbin Feng , Lucy Lu Wang , Yulia Tsvetkov

Research on misinformation has focused almost exclusively on supply, asking what falsehoods circulate, who produces them, and whether corrections work. A basic demand-side question remains unanswered. When ordinary people can fact-check…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Bijean Ghafouri , Dorsaf Sallami , Luca Luceri , Taylor Lynn Curtis , Jean-Francois Godbout , Emilio Ferrara , Reihaneh Rabbany

Public, professional and academic interest in automated fact-checking has drastically increased over the past decade, with many aiming to automate one of the first steps in a fact-check procedure: the selection of so-called checkworthy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Liesbeth Allein , Marie-Francine Moens

The online spreading of fake news is a major issue threatening entire societies. Much of this spreading is enabled by new media formats, namely social networks and online media sites. Researchers and practitioners have been trying to answer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jakub Simko , Patrik Racsko , Matus Tomlein , Martin Hanakova , Robert Moro , Maria Bielikova