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The detection of fake news often requires sophisticated reasoning skills, such as logically combining information by considering word-level subtle clues. In this paper, we move towards fine-grained reasoning for fake news detection by…

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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

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 popularity of online social networks has enabled rapid dissemination of information. People now can share and consume information much more rapidly than ever before. However, low-quality and/or accidentally/deliberately fake information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

Fake news detection has become a research area that goes way beyond a purely academic interest as it has direct implications on our society as a whole. Recent advances have primarily focused on textbased approaches. However, it has become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Gregor Donabauer , Udo Kruschwitz

The rapid growth of social media has resulted in an explosion of online news content, leading to a significant increase in the spread of misleading or false information. While machine learning techniques have been widely applied to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hao Chen , Hui Guo , Baochen Hu , Shu Hu , Jinrong Hu , Siwei Lyu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

Recently, neural networks based on multi-task learning have achieved promising performance on fake news detection, which focus on learning shared features among tasks as complementary features to serve different tasks. However, in most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Lianwei Wu , Yuan Rao , Haolin Jin , Ambreen Nazir , Ling Sun

With the rapid development of social media, the wide dissemination of fake news on social media is increasingly threatening both individuals and society. One of the unique challenges for fake news detection on social media is how to detect…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiajun Zhang , Zhixun Li , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

In today's technologically driven world, the rapid spread of fake news, particularly during critical events like elections, poses a growing threat to the integrity of information. To tackle this challenge head-on, we introduce FakeWatch, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shaina Raza , Tahniat Khan , Veronica Chatrath , Drai Paulen-Patterson , Mizanur Rahman , Oluwanifemi Bamgbose

Automatic fake news detection models are ostensibly based on logic, where the truth of a claim made in a headline can be determined by supporting or refuting evidence found in a resulting web query. These models are believed to be reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Ian Kelk , Benjamin Basseri , Wee Yi Lee , Richard Qiu , Chris Tanner

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

The evolution of electronic media is a mixed blessing. Due to the easy access, low cost, and faster reach of the information, people search out and devour news from online social networks. In contrast, the increasing acceptance of social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hema Karande , Rahee Walambe , Victor Benjamin , Ketan Kotecha , T. S. Raghu

The rapid adoption of large language models has introduced a new class of AI-generated fake news that coexists with traditional human-written misinformation, raising important questions about how these two forms of deceptive content differ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Samuel Jaeger , Calvin Ibeneye , Aya Vera-Jimenez , Dhrubajyoti Ghosh

Fake News Detection is an essential problem in the field of Natural Language Processing. The benefits of an effective solution in this area are manifold for the goodwill of society. On a surface level, it broadly matches with the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lovedeep Singh

The growing societal dependence on social media and user generated content for news and information has increased the influence of unreliable sources and fake content, which muddles public discourse and lessens trust in the media.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Marjan Hosseini , Alireza Javadian Sabet , Suining He , Derek Aguiar

Since fake news poses a serious threat to society and individuals, numerous studies have been brought by considering text, propagation and user profiles. Due to the data collection problem, these methods based on propagation and user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yuhang Wang , Li Wang , Yanjie Yang , Yilin Zhang

Fake News Detection (FND) is an essential field in natural language processing that aims to identify and check the truthfulness of major claims in a news article to decide the news veracity. FND finds its uses in preventing social,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Prabhav Singh , Ridam Srivastava , K. P. S. Rana , Vineet Kumar

Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony and affect society, especially when dealing with an epidemic like COVID-19. The task of Fake News Detection aims to tackle the effects of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mrinal Rawat , Diptesh Kanojia

A great deal of empirical research has examined who falls for misinformation and why. Here, we introduce a formal game-theoretic model of engagement with news stories that captures the strategic interplay between (mis)information consumers…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-26 Alexander J. Stewart , Antonio A. Arechar , David G. Rand , Joshua B. Plotkin

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…

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