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Social media have become part of modern news reporting, used by journalists to spread information and find sources, or as a news source by individuals. The quest for prominence and recognition on social media sites like Twitter can…

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As social media becomes a hotbed for the spread of misinformation, the crucial task of rumor detection has witnessed promising advances fostered by open-source benchmark datasets. Despite being widely used, we find that these datasets…

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With the recent advancements in social network platform technology, an overwhelming amount of information is spreading rapidly. In this situation, it can become increasingly difficult to discern what information is false or true. If false…

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The proliferation of misinformation, such as rumors on social media, has drawn significant attention, prompting various expressions of stance among users. Although rumor detection and stance detection are distinct tasks, they can complement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Ruichao Yang , Jing Ma , Wei Gao , Hongzhan Lin

The truth is significantly hampered by massive rumors that spread along with breaking news or popular topics. Since there is sufficient corpus gathered from the same domain for model training, existing rumor detection algorithms show…

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Information quality in social media is an increasingly important issue, but web-scale data hinders experts' ability to assess and correct much of the inaccurate content, or `fake news,' present in these platforms. This paper develops a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Cody Buntain , Jennifer Golbeck

Detecting out-of-context media, such as "mis-captioned" images on Twitter, is a relevant problem, especially in domains of high public significance. In this work we aim to develop defenses against such misinformation for the topics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Giscard Biamby , Grace Luo , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

The proliferation of social media in communication and information dissemination has made it an ideal platform for spreading rumors. Automatically debunking rumors at their stage of diffusion is known as \textit{early rumor detection},…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Tong Chen , Lin Wu , Xue Li , Jun Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Yang Wang

It is difficult for humans to distinguish the true and false of rumors, but current deep learning models can surpass humans and achieve excellent accuracy on many rumor datasets. In this paper, we investigate whether deep learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

Automatically verifying rumorous information has become an important and challenging task in natural language processing and social media analytics. Previous studies reveal that people's stances towards rumorous messages can provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Penghui Wei , Nan Xu , Wenji Mao

A crucial aspect of a rumor detection model is its ability to generalize, particularly its ability to detect emerging, previously unknown rumors. Past research has indicated that content-based (i.e., using solely source posts as input)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yida Mu , Xingyi Song , Kalina Bontcheva , Nikolaos Aletras

Social media platforms have become key channels for spreading and tracking rumors due to their widespread accessibility and ease of information sharing. Rumors can continuously emerge across diverse domains and topics, often with the intent…

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Fake news detection in social media has become increasingly important due to the rapid proliferation of personal media channels and the consequential dissemination of misleading information. Existing methods, which primarily rely on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wanqing Zhao , Yuta Nakashima , Haiyuan Chen , Noboru Babaguchi

With the development of social media, rumors spread quickly, cause great harm to society and economy. Thereby, many effective rumor detection methods have been developed, among which the rumor propagation structure learning based methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

In the contemporary era of information explosion, we are often faced with the mixture of massive \emph{truth} (true information) and \emph{rumor} (false information) flooded over social networks. Under such circumstances, it is very…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Shan Qu , Ziqi Zhao , Luoyi Fu , XInbing Wang , Jun Xu

We study a rumor spreading model where individuals are connected via a network structure. Initially, only a small subset of the individuals are spreading a rumor. Each individual who is connected to a spreader, starts spreading the rumor…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ahad N. Zehmakan , Charlotte Out , Sajjad Hesamipour Khelejan

In recent years, people spend a lot of time on social networks. They use social networks as a place to comment on personal or public events. Thus, a large amount of information is generated and shared daily in these networks. Using such a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Parinaz Rahimizadeh , Mohammad Javad Shayegan

Rumours have existed for a long time and have been known for serious consequences. The rapid growth of social media platforms has multiplied the negative impact of rumours; it thus becomes important to early detect them. Many methods have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Tien Huu Do , Xiao Luo , Duc Minh Nguyen , Nikos Deligiannis

In recent years, rumors have had a devastating impact on society, making rumor detection a significant challenge. However, the studies on rumor detection ignore the intense emotions of images in the rumor content. This paper verifies that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ge Wang , Li Tan , Ziliang Shang , He Liu