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With the advent of social media, an increasing number of netizens are sharing and reading posts and news online. However, the huge volumes of misinformation (e.g., fake news and rumors) that flood the internet can adversely affect people's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zhiwei Liu , Tianlin Zhang , Kailai Yang , Paul Thompson , Zeping Yu , Sophia Ananiadou

Mis- and disinformation, commonly collectively called fake news, continue to menace society. Perhaps, the impact of this age-old problem is presently most plain in politics and healthcare. However, fake news is affecting an increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Martins Samuel Dogo

Social media have been growing rapidly and become essential elements of many people's lives. Meanwhile, social media have also come to be a popular source for identity deception. Many social media identity deception cases have arisen over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Ahmed Alharbi , Hai Dong , Xun Yi , Zahir Tari , Ibrahim Khalil

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

Fake news existed ever since there was news, from rumors to printed media then radio and television. Recently, the information age, with its communications and Internet breakthroughs, exacerbated the spread of fake news. Additionally, aside…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Fatema Al Mukhaini , Shaikhah Al Abdoulie , Aisha Al Kharuosi , Amal El Ahmad , Monther Aldwairi

In recent years, scholars have raised concerns on the effects that unreliable news, or "fake news," has on our political sphere, and our democracy as a whole. For example, the propagation of fake news on social media is widely believed to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Banafsheh Behzad , Bhavana Bheem , Daniela Elizondo , Deyana Marsh , Susan Martonosi

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Oluwaseun Ajao , Deepayan Bhowmik , Shahrzad Zargari

We study the problem of finding fake online news. This is an important problem as news of questionable credibility have recently been proliferating in social media at an alarming scale. As this is an understudied problem, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

In recent years, disinformation including fake news, has became a global phenomenon due to its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The wide spread of disinformation and fake news can cause detrimental societal effects. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kai Shu , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

It has been argued that fake news and the spread of false information pose a threat to societies throughout the world, from influencing the results of elections to hindering the efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nathaniel Hoy , Theodora Koulouri

With the development of social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and gotten widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, people can get infected by the fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Yang Yang , Lei Zheng , Jiawei Zhang , Qingcai Cui , Zhoujun Li , Philip S. Yu

'Fake news' is information that generally spreads on the web, which only mimics the form of reliable news media content. The phenomenon has assumed uncontrolled proportions in recent years rising the concern of authorities and citizens. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Davide Bennato , Giuseppe Pernagallo , Benedetto Torrisi

Fake news has become omnipresent in digitalized areas such as social media platforms. While being disseminated online, it also poses a threat to individuals and societies offline, for example, in the context of democratic elections.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Enrico Bunde , Niklas Kühl , Christian Meske

The Internet and social media have altered how individuals access news in the age of instantaneous information distribution. While this development has increased access to information, it has also created a significant problem: the spread…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Li He , Siyi Hu , Ailun Pei

In recent years, the reliability of information on the Internet has emerged as a crucial issue of modern society. Social network sites (SNSs) have revolutionized the way in which information is spread by allowing users to freely share…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Eugenio Tacchini , Gabriele Ballarin , Marco L. Della Vedova , Stefano Moret , Luca de Alfaro

With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening our democracies, public health, and news outlets' credibility.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Giancarlo Ruffo , Alfonso Semeraro , Anastasia Giachanou , Paolo Rosso

The increasing popularity of social media promotes the proliferation of fake news, which has caused significant negative societal effects. Therefore, fake news detection on social media has recently become an emerging research area of great…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Juan Cao , Peng Qi , Qiang Sheng , Tianyun Yang , Junbo Guo , Jintao Li

Fake news detection is a very prominent and essential task in the field of journalism. This challenging problem is seen so far in the field of politics, but it could be even more challenging when it is to be determined in the multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Tanik Saikh , Arkadipta De , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Recent studies have confirmed a growing trend, especially among youngsters, of using Online Social Media as favourite information platform at the expense of traditional mass media. Indeed, they can easily reach a wide audience at a high…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Alessandro Balestrucci , Rocco De Nicola

The evolution of the information and communication technologies has dramatically increased the number of people with access to the Internet, which has changed the way the information is consumed. As a consequence of the above, fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Álvaro Ibrain Rodríguez , Lara Lloret Iglesias