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With the growth of the internet, the number of fake-news online has been proliferating every year. The consequences of such phenomena are manifold, ranging from lousy decision-making process to bullying and violence episodes. Therefore,…

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Social networking sites, blogs, and online articles are instant sources of news for internet users globally. However, in the absence of strict regulations mandating the genuineness of every text on social media, it is probable that some of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Arjun Choudhry , Inder Khatri , Minni Jain , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

With the ease of access to information, and its rapid dissemination over the internet (both velocity and volume), it has become challenging to filter out truthful information from fake ones. The research community is now faced with the task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Akansha Gautam , Venktesh V , Sarah Masud

Over the past decade, fake news and misinformation have turned into a major problem that has impacted different aspects of our lives, including politics and public health. Inspired by natural human behavior, we present an approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Zahra Ghadiri , Milad Ranjbar , Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad , Sadegh Raeisi

The rapid integration of large language models into newsroom workflows has raised urgent questions about the prevalence of AI-generated content in online media. While computational studies have begun to quantify this phenomenon in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ozancan Ozdemir

In this digital age of news consumption, a news reader has the ability to react, express and share opinions with others in a highly interactive and fast manner. As a consequence, fake news has made its way into our daily life because of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

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

Internet is one of the important inventions and a large number of persons are its users. These persons use this for different purposes. There are different social media platforms that are accessible to these users. Any user can make a post…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alim Al Ayub Ahmed , Ayman Aljabouh , Praveen Kumar Donepudi , Myung Suh Choi

Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo

The rise in online misinformation in recent years threatens democracies by distorting authentic public discourse and causing confusion, fear, and even, in extreme cases, violence. There is a need to understand the spread of false content…

As online news has become increasingly popular and fake news increasingly prevalent, the ability to audit the veracity of online news content has become more important than ever. Such a task represents a binary classification challenge, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ciara Blackledge , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

False news has received attention from both the general public and the scholarly world. Such false information has the ability to affect public perception, giving nefarious groups the chance to influence the results of public events like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Biplob Kumar Sutradhar , Md. Zonaid , Nushrat Jahan Ria , Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

With social media usage growing exponentially in the past few years, fake news has also become extremely prevalent. The detrimental impact of fake news emphasizes the need for research focused on automating the detection of false…

Fake news may be intentionally created to promote economic, political and social interests, and can lead to negative impacts on humans beliefs and decisions. Hence, detection of fake news is an emerging problem that has become extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gisel Bastidas Guacho , Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

The prevalence and perniciousness of fake news has been a critical issue on the Internet, which stimulates the development of automatic fake news detection in turn. In this paper, we focus on the evidence-based fake news detection, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Weizhi Xu , Junfei Wu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Fake news is fake material in a news media format but is not processed properly by news agencies. The fake material can provoke or defame significant entities or individuals or potentially even for the personal interests of the creators,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shafna Fitria Nur Azizah , Hasan Dwi Cahyono , Sari Widya Sihwi , Wisnu Widiarto

Social media platforms are vulnerable to fake news dissemination, which causes negative consequences such as panic and wrong medication in the healthcare domain. Therefore, it is important to automatically detect fake news in an early stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Ipek Baris , Zeyd Boukhers

The proliferation of clickbait headlines poses significant challenges to the credibility of information and user trust in digital media. While recent advances in machine learning have improved the detection of manipulative content, the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lihi Nofar , Tomer Portal , Aviv Elbaz , Alexander Apartsin , Yehudit Aperstein

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

Online media aim for reaching ever bigger audience and for attracting ever longer attention span. This competition creates an environment that rewards sensational, fake, and toxic news. To help limit their spread and impact, we propose and…

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