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With the pandemic of COVID-19, relevant fake news is spreading all over the sky throughout the social media. Believing in them without discrimination can cause great trouble to people's life. However, universal language models may perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Ben Chen , Bin Chen , Dehong Gao , Qijin Chen , Chengfu Huo , Xiaonan Meng , Weijun Ren , Yang Zhou

Making disguise between real and fake news propagation through online social networks is an important issue in many applications. The time gap between the news release time and detection of its label is a significant step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Maryam Ramezani , Mina Rafiei , Soroush Omranpour , Hamid R. Rabiee

Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social media, producing all kinds of updates related to news stories, albeit with the caveat that some of those early updates tend to be rumours, i.e., information with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

In an era increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence, the detection of fake news is crucial, especially in contexts like election seasons where misinformation can have significant societal impacts. This study evaluates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Sahas Koka , Anthony Vuong , Anish Kataria

Recent years have seen an explosion in social media usage, allowing people to connect with others. Since the appearance of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, such platforms influence how we speak, think, and behave. This problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Taminul Islam , MD Alamin Hosen , Akhi Mony , MD Touhid Hasan , Israt Jahan , Arindom Kundu

It has been argued that fake news and the spread of false information pose a threat to societies throughout the world, from influencing the results of elections to hindering the efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nathaniel Hoy , Theodora Koulouri

False information spread via the internet and social media influences public opinion and user activity, while generative models enable fake content to be generated faster and more cheaply than had previously been possible. In the not so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Antonis Maronikolakis , Hinrich Schutze , Mark Stevenson

The spread of fake news has emerged as a critical challenge, undermining trust and posing threats to society. In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the capability to generate believable fake content has intensified these concerns. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jinyan Su , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jonibek Mansurov , Di Wang , Preslav Nakov

The advent of generative Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has catalyzed transformative advancements across multiple domains. However, alongside these advancements, they have also introduced potential threats. One critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Bohan Jiang , Zhen Tan , Ayushi Nirmal , Huan Liu

In recent years, we witness the explosion of false and unconfirmed information (i.e., rumors) that went viral on social media and shocked the public. Rumors can trigger versatile, mostly controversial stance expressions among social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ruichao Yang , Wei Gao , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Zhiwei Yang

Fake news poses global risks by influencing elections and spreading misinformation, making detection critical. Existing NLP and supervised Machine Learning methods perform well under cross-validation but struggle to generalise across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nathaniel Hoy , Theodora Koulouri

Social media are nowadays one of the main news sources for millions of people around the globe due to their low cost, easy access and rapid dissemination. This however comes at the cost of dubious trustworthiness and significant risk of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Federico Monti , Fabrizio Frasca , Davide Eynard , Damon Mannion , Michael M. Bronstein

Considerable advancements have been made to tackle the misrepresentation of information derived from reference articles in the domains of fact-checking and faithful summarization. However, an unaddressed aspect remains - the identification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Hou Pong Chan , Kathleen McKeown , Heng Ji

Fake news on social media is a widespread and serious problem in today's society. Existing fake news detection methods focus on finding clues from Long text content, such as original news articles and user comments. This paper solves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

Users polarization and confirmation bias play a key role in misinformation spreading on online social media. Our aim is to use this information to determine in advance potential targets for hoaxes and fake news. In this paper, we introduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Michela Del Vicario , Walter Quattrociocchi , Antonio Scala , Fabiana Zollo

The proliferation of false information in the digital age has become a pressing concern, necessitating the development of effective and robust detection methods. This paper offers a comprehensive review of existing false information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kun Xie , Sibo Wang

The quality of digital information on the web has been disquieting due to the lack of careful manual review. Consequently, a large volume of false textual information has been disseminating for a long time since the prevalence of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qiang Zhang , Hongbin Huang , Shangsong Liang , Zaiqiao Meng , Emine Yilmaz

Massive dissemination of fake news and its potential to erode democracy has increased the demand for accurate fake news detection. Recent advancements in this area have proposed novel techniques that aim to detect fake news by exploring how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Xinyi Zhou , Atishay Jain , Vir V. Phoha , Reza Zafarani

This study examines how fake news affects social media users across a range of age groups and how machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) can help reduce the spread of false information. The paper evaluates various machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Kahlil bin Abdul Hakim , Sathishkumar Veerappampalayam Easwaramoorthy

In recent years, disinformation including fake news, has became a global phenomenon due to its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The wide spread of disinformation and fake news can cause detrimental societal effects. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kai Shu , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu