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With the rapid development of information technology and the widespread utilization of recommendation algorithms, users are able to access information more conveniently, while the content they receive tends to be homogeneous. Homogeneous…

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Information popularity prediction is important yet challenging in various domains, including viral marketing and news recommendations. The key to accurately predicting information popularity lies in subtly modeling the underlying temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Xin Jing , Yichen Jing , Yuhuan Lu , Bangchao Deng , Sikun Yang , Dingqi Yang

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms were ideal for communicating due to social isolation and quarantine. Also, it was the primary source of misinformation dissemination on a large scale, referred to as the infodemic.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Sajad Dadgar , Mehdi Ghatee

Social media has become an important communication channel during high impact events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. As misinformation in social media can rapidly spread, creating social unrest, curtailing the spread of misinformation…

The problem of detecting bots, automated social media accounts governed by software but disguising as human users, has strong implications. For example, bots have been used to sway political elections by distorting online discourse, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Sneha Kudugunta , Emilio Ferrara

Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have facilitated the spread of misinformation, necessitating automated detection systems. This systematic review evaluates 36 studies that apply machine learning (ML) and deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yunchong Liu , Xiaorui Shen , Yeyubei Zhang , Zhongyan Wang , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai , Yuchen Cao

Information sharing on social media must be accompanied by attentive behavior so that in a distorted digital environment, users are not rushed and distracted in deciding to share information. The spread of misinformation, especially those…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Zaid Amin , Nazlena Mohamad Ali , Alan F. Smeaton

Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, has become one of the most important channels for information dissemination. However, these social media platforms are often misused to spread rumors, which has brought about severe social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Shuai Wang , Qingchao Kong , Yuqi Wang , Lei Wang

Modern information environments, especially social media, are highly complex systems that exceed individual processing capacities such as humans' limited attention. This environment/cognition mismatch can increase susceptibility to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-24 Viktoria Kainz , Justin Sulik , Anna Neudert , Torsten Enßlin

The emergence of online social platforms, such as social networks and social media, has drastically affected the way people apprehend the information flows to which they are exposed. In such platforms, various information cascades spreading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Gaspard Abel , Argyris Kalogeratos , Jean-Pierre Nadal , Julien Randon-Furling

Recent developments in image classification and natural language processing, coupled with the rapid growth in social media usage, have enabled fundamental advances in detecting breaking events around the world in real-time. Emergency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Mahdi Abavisani , Liwei Wu , Shengli Hu , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

The rapid dissemination of misinformation through social media increased the importance of automated fact-checking. Furthermore, studies on what deep neural models pay attention to when making predictions have increased in recent years.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz

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

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

Detecting multimodal misinformation on social media remains challenging due to inconsistencies between modalities, changes in temporal patterns, and substantial class imbalance. Many existing methods treat posts independently and fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ahmad Mousavi , Yeganeh Abdollahinejad , Roberto Corizzo , Nathalie Japkowicz , Zois Boukouvalas

The development of social media platforms has revolutionized the speed and manner in which information is disseminated, leading to both beneficial and detrimental effects on society. While these platforms facilitate rapid communication,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liu Yan , Liu Yunpeng , Zhao Liang

Coordinated information operations remain a persistent challenge on social media, despite platform efforts to curb them. While previous research has primarily focused on identifying these operations within individual platforms, this study…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Federico Cinus , Marco Minici , Luca Luceri , Emilio Ferrara

Recently, \textit{diffusion history inference} has become an emerging research topic due to its great benefits for various applications, whose purpose is to reconstruct the missing histories of information diffusion traces according to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Yanchao Sun , Cong Qian , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Temporal point process is widely used for sequential data modeling. In this paper, we focus on the problem of modeling sequential event propagation in graph, such as retweeting by social network users, news transmitting between websites,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Weichang Wu , Huanxi Liu , Xiaohu Zhang , Yu Liu , Hongyuan Zha

This article presents a novel approach for learning low-dimensional distributed representations of users in online social networks. Existing methods rely on the network structure formed by the social relationships among users to extract…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Harvineet Singh , Amitabha Bagchi , Parag Singla