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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

Fake news is pervasive on social media, inflicting substantial harm on public discourse and societal well-being. We investigate the explicit structural information and textual features of news pieces by constructing a heterogeneous graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuchen Zhang , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Hao Fan

Given the volume and speed at which fake news spreads across social media, automatic fake news detection has become a highly important task. However, this task presents several challenges, including extracting textual features that contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ingryd V. S. T. Pereira , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Rafael M. O. Cruz

We propose multi-agent reinforcement learning as a new method for modeling fake news in social networks. This method allows us to model human behavior in social networks both in unaccustomed populations and in populations that have adapted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christoph Aymanns , Jakob Foerster , Co-Pierre Georg , Matthias Weber

Both real and fake news in various domains, such as politics, health, and entertainment are spread via online social media every day, necessitating fake news detection for multiple domains. Among them, fake news in specific domains like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Qiong Nan , Danding Wang , Yongchun Zhu , Qiang Sheng , Yuhui Shi , Juan Cao , Jintao Li

The problem associated with the propagation of fake news continues to grow at an alarming scale. This trend has generated much interest from politics to academia and industry alike. We propose a framework that detects and classifies fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Oluwaseun Ajao , Deepayan Bhowmik , Shahrzad Zargari

Fake news detection is an important task for increasing the credibility of information on the media since fake news is constantly spreading on social media every day and it is a very serious concern in our society. Fake news is usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Nguyen Manh Duc Tuan , Pham Quang Nhat Minh

While the world has been combating COVID-19 for over three years, an ongoing "Infodemic" due to the spread of fake news regarding the pandemic has also been a global issue. The existence of the fake news impact different aspect of our daily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chih-Yuan Li , Navya Martin Kollapally , Soon Ae Chun , James Geller

The wide dissemination of fake news has affected our lives in many aspects, making fake news detection important and attracting increasing attention. Existing approaches make substantial contributions in this field by modeling news from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Junwei Yin , Min Gao , Kai Shu , Zehua Zhao , Yinqiu Huang , Jia Wang

An important aspect of preventing fake news dissemination is to proactively detect the likelihood of its spreading. Research in the domain of fake news spreader detection has not been explored much from a network analysis perspective. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Bhavtosh Rath , Aadesh Salecha , Jaideep Srivastava

With emerging topics (e.g., COVID-19) on social media as a source for the spreading misinformation, overcoming the distributional shifts between the original training domain (i.e., source domain) and such target domains remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Yang Zhang , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a significant threat to the integrity of information dissemination, particularly on social media platforms. Misinformation can spread quickly due to the ease of creating and disseminating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mesay Gemeda Yigezu , Melkamu Abay Mersha , Girma Yohannis Bade , Jugal Kalita , Olga Kolesnikova , Alexander Gelbukh

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing solutions heavily rely on the exploitation of lexical features and their distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 ChengCheng Han , Zeqiu Fan , Dongxiang Zhang , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

Numerous fake images spread on social media today and can severely jeopardize the credibility of online content to public. In this paper, we employ deep networks to learn distinct fake image related features. In contrast to authentic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhiwei Jin , Juan Cao , Jiebo Luo , Yongdong Zhang

Nowadays, social network platforms have been the prime source for people to experience news and events due to their capacities to spread information rapidly, which inevitably provides a fertile ground for the dissemination of fake news.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Hao Li , Huan Wang , Guanghua Liu

Fake news, rumor, incorrect information, and misinformation detection are nowadays crucial issues as these might have serious consequences for our social fabrics. The rate of such information is increasing rapidly due to the availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Arjun Roy , Kingshuk Basak , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

The rapid advancement of social media platforms has significantly reduced the cost of information dissemination, yet it has also led to a proliferation of fake news, posing a threat to societal trust and credibility. Most of fake news…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Aohan Li , Jiaxin Chen , Xin Liao , Dengyong Zhang

Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture. It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations. Using automatic machine learning classification models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

In recent years, with the expansion of the Internet and attractive social media infrastructures, people prefer to follow the news through these media. Despite the many advantages of these media in the news field, the lack of any control and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ali Jarrahi , Leila Safari

Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost, easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume news from social media. On the other hand, it enables the wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kai Shu , Amy Sliva , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu