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In current web environment, fake news spreads rapidly across online social networks, posing serious threats to society. Existing multimodal fake news detection methods can generally be classified into knowledge-based and semantic-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xinqi Su , Zitong Yu , Yawen Cui , Ajian Liu , Xun Lin , Yuhao Wang , Haochen Liang , Wenhui Li , Li Shen , Xiaochun Cao

The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for timely identification and containment of fake news, and mitigation of its widespread impact on public opinion. While much of the earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Karishma Sharma , Feng Qian , He Jiang , Natali Ruchansky , Ming Zhang , Yan Liu

Fact verification models have enjoyed a fast advancement in the last two years with the development of pre-trained language models like BERT and the release of large scale datasets such as FEVER. However, the challenging problem of fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qifei Li , Wangchunshu Zhou

The significance of social media has increased manifold in the past few decades as it helps people from even the most remote corners of the world to stay connected. With the advent of technology, digital media has become more relevant and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Sourya Dipta Das , Ayan Basak , Saikat Dutta

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

Fake news on social media platforms poses a significant threat to societal systems, underscoring the urgent need for advanced detection methods. The existing detection methods can be divided into machine intelligence-based, crowd…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yidong Chai , Kangwei Shi , Jiaheng Xie , Chunli Liu , Yuanchun Jiang , Yezheng Liu

News in social media such as Twitter has been generated in high volume and speed. However, very few of them are labeled (as fake or true news) by professionals in near real time. In order to achieve timely detection of fake news in social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Xishuang Dong , Uboho Victor , Lijun Qian

Fake news on social media has become a hot topic of research as it negatively impacts the discourse of real news in the public. Specifically, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise of inaccurate and misleading information due to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

Making disguise between real and fake news propagation through online social networks is an important issue in many applications. The time gap between the news release time and detection of its label is a significant step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Maryam Ramezani , Mina Rafiei , Soroush Omranpour , Hamid R. Rabiee

The rise of social media has amplified the spread of fake news, now further complicated by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, which ease the generation of highly convincing, error-free misinformation, making it increasingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Muhammad Zain Ali , Yuxia Wang , Bernhard Pfahringer , Tony Smith

Fact checking is an essential task in journalism; its importance has been highlighted due to recently increased concerns and efforts in combating misinformation. In this paper, we present an automated fact-checking platform which given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Sebastião Miranda , David Nogueira , Afonso Mendes , Andreas Vlachos , Andrew Secker , Rebecca Garrett , Jeff Mitchel , Zita Marinho

Fake news and misinformation are a matter of concern for people around the globe. Users of the internet and social media sites encounter content with false information much frequently. Fake news detection is one of the most analyzed and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Chahat Raj , Priyanka Meel

False rumors are known to have detrimental effects on society. To prevent the spread of false rumors, social media platforms such as Twitter must detect them early. In this work, we develop a novel probabilistic mixture model that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Christof Naumzik , Stefan Feuerriegel

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 proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs), the detection of misinformation has become increasingly important and complex. This research proposes an innovative verifiable misinformation detection LLM agent that goes beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zikun Cui , Tianyi Huang , Chia-En Chiang , Cuiqianhe Du

Detecting whether a news article is fake or genuine is a crucial task in today's digital world where it's easy to create and spread a misleading news article. This is especially true of news stories shared on social media since they don't…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Shashank Gupta , Raghuveer Thirukovalluru , Manjira Sinha , Sandya Mannarswamy

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in deception detection, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. However, statistical approaches to combating fake news has been dramatically limited by the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 William Yang Wang

Detecting out-of-context media, such as "mis-captioned" images on Twitter, is a relevant problem, especially in domains of high public significance. In this work we aim to develop defenses against such misinformation for the topics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Giscard Biamby , Grace Luo , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

Thanks to platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, people can know facts and events that otherwise would have been silenced. However, social media significantly contribute also to fast spreading biased and false news while targeting specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Alessandro Balestrucci , Rocco De Nicola , Marinella Petrocchi , Catia Trubiani

With the rapid evolution of social media, fake news has become a significant social problem, which cannot be addressed in a timely manner using manual investigation. This has motivated numerous studies on automating fake news detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie