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In the past few years, the research community has dedicated growing interest to the issue of false news circulating on social networks. The widespread attention on detecting and characterizing false news has been motivated by considerable…

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User comments on social media have been recognized as a crucial factor in distinguishing between fake and real news, with many studies focusing on the textual content of user reactions. However, the interactions among agents in the comment…

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The plague of false information, popularly called fake news has affected lives of news consumers ever since the prevalence of social media. Thus understanding the spread of false information in social networks has gained a lot of attention…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Bhavtosh Rath , Wei Gao , Jaideep Srivastava

Today's social media platforms enable to spread both authentic and fake news very quickly. Some approaches have been proposed to automatically detect such "fake" news based on their content, but it is difficult to agree on universal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Oana Balmau , Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexandre Maurer , Matej Pavlovic , Willy Zwaenepoel

Fake news can have a significant negative impact on society because of the growing use of mobile devices and the worldwide increase in Internet access. It is therefore essential to develop a simple mathematical model to understand the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Taichi Murayama , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki , Ryota Kobayashi

Fake news can significantly misinform people who often rely on online sources and social media for their information. Current research on fake news detection has mostly focused on analyzing fake news content and how it propagates on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Niraj Sitaula , Chilukuri K. Mohan , Jennifer Grygiel , Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

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…

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Fake news in social media has quickly become one of the most discussed topics in today's society. With false information proliferating and causing a significant impact in the political, economical, and social domains, research efforts to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Nuno Guimarães , Álvaro Figueira , Luís Torgo

Social media for news consumption is becoming increasingly popular due to its easy access, fast dissemination, and low cost. However, social media also enable the wide propagation of "fake news", i.e., news with intentionally false…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Kai Shu , H. Russell Bernard , Huan Liu

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

The evolution of social media platforms have empowered everyone to access information easily. Social media users can easily share information with the rest of the world. This may sometimes encourage spread of fake news, which can result in…

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The rise of social media has enabled the widespread propagation of fake news, text that is published with an intent to spread misinformation and sway beliefs. Rapidly detecting fake news, especially as new events arise, is important to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Nikhil Mehta , Dan Goldwasser

This thesis addresses two paradoxes: (1) why empirical studies find that fake news represent only a small share of the information consulted and shared on social media despite the absence of editorial control or journalistic norms, and (2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Manon Berriche

Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an `infodemic'. Fake news and rumors are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm. This is further exacerbated at the time of a pandemic. To tackle this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Parth Patwa , Shivam Sharma , Srinivas Pykl , Vineeth Guptha , Gitanjali Kumari , Md Shad Akhtar , Asif Ekbal , Amitava Das , Tanmoy Chakraborty

The rise of social networks as the primary means of communication in almost every country in the world has simultaneously triggered an increase in the amount of fake news circulating online. This fact became particularly evident during the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-04 Jonathan Franceschi , Lorenzo Pareschi

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an infodemic where an overwhelming amount of COVID-19 related content was being disseminated at high velocity through social media. This made it challenging for citizens to differentiate between accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yida Mu , Ye Jiang , Freddy Heppell , Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

Fake news is risky since it has been created to manipulate the readers' opinions and beliefs. In this work, we compared the language of false news to the real one of real news from an emotional perspective, considering a set of false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Bilal Ghanem , Paolo Rosso , Francisco Rangel

As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates. The use of social media in such situations comes with the caveat that new information being released piecemeal may encourage rumours,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi , Peter Tolmie

Social media can be a double-edged sword for society, either as a convenient channel exchanging ideas or as an unexpected conduit circulating fake news through a large population. While existing studies of fake news focus on theoretical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-17 Zilong Zhao , Jichang Zhao , Yukie Sano , Orr levy , Hideki Takayasu , Misako Takayasu , Daqing Li , Junjie Wu , Shlomo Havlin

The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods that can detect fake news from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani