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Fake news emerged as an apparent global problem during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Addressing it requires a multidisciplinary effort to define the nature and extent of the problem, detect fake news in real time, and mitigate its…

With the growth of the internet, the number of fake-news online has been proliferating every year. The consequences of such phenomena are manifold, ranging from lousy decision-making process to bullying and violence episodes. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Diego Esteves , Aniketh Janardhan Reddy , Piyush Chawla , Jens Lehmann

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

The spread of digital disinformation (aka "fake news") is arguably one of the most significant threats on the Internet which can cause individual and societal harm of large scales. The susceptibility to fake news attacks hinges on whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Cagri Arisoy , Anuradha Mandal , Nitesh Saxena

The rapid spread of information via social media has made text-based fake news detection critically important due to its societal impact. This paper presents a novel detection method called Dynamic Representation and Ensemble Selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Faramarz Farhangian , Leandro A. Ensina , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Rafael M. O. Cruz

The emergence of social media as one of the main platforms for people to access news has enabled the wide dissemination of fake news. This has motivated numerous studies on automating fake news detection. Although there have been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

With the rapid growth of online information, the spread of fake news has become a serious social challenge. In this study, we propose a novel detection framework based on Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify and classify fake news by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaochuan Xu , Peiyang Yu , Zeqiu Xu , Jiani Wang

Social media has become a popular means for people to consume news. Meanwhile, it also enables the wide dissemination of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information, which brings significant negative effects to the society.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Kai Shu , Deepak Mahudeswaran , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

We propose multi-agent reinforcement learning as a new method for modeling fake news in social networks. This method allows us to model human behavior in social networks both in unaccustomed populations and in populations that have adapted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christoph Aymanns , Jakob Foerster , Co-Pierre Georg , Matthias Weber

The wide dissemination of fake news has affected our lives in many aspects, making fake news detection important and attracting increasing attention. Existing approaches make substantial contributions in this field by modeling news from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Junwei Yin , Min Gao , Kai Shu , Zehua Zhao , Yinqiu Huang , Jia Wang

A lot of news sources picked up on Typhoon Rai (also known locally as Typhoon Odette), along with fake news outlets. The study honed in on the issue, to create a model that can identify between legitimate and illegitimate news articles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Lord Christian Carl H. Regacho , Ai Matsushita , Angie M. Ceniza-Canillo

Fake news on social media is a widespread and serious problem in today's society. Existing fake news detection methods focus on finding clues from Long text content, such as original news articles and user comments. This paper solves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

News Articles provides crucial information about various events happening in the society but they unfortunately come with different kind of biases. These biases can significantly distort public opinion and trust in the media, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Bhushan Santosh Shah , Deven Santosh Shah , Vahida Attar

Fake news poses a significant threat to public opinion and social stability in modern society. This study presents a comparative evaluation of BERT-like encoder-only models and autoregressive decoder-only large language models (LLMs) for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Shaina Raza , Drai Paulen-Patterson , Chen Ding

The increasing consumption of news online in the 21st century coincided with increased publication of disinformation, biased reporting, hate speech and other unwanted Web content. We describe BiasScanner, an application that aims to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Tim Menzner , Jochen L. Leidner

Online social networking sites are experimenting with the following crowd-powered procedure to reduce the spread of fake news and misinformation: whenever a user is exposed to a story through her feed, she can flag the story as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Jooyeon Kim , Behzad Tabibian , Alice Oh , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez

Identifying fake news is a very difficult task, especially when considering the multiple modes of conveying information through text, image, video and/or audio. We attempted to tackle the problem of automated misinformation/disinformation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Abhishek Dhankar , Osmar R. Zaïane , Francois Bolduc

We present a novel collection of news articles originating from fake and real news media sources for the analysis and prediction of news virality. Unlike existing fake news datasets which either contain claims or news article headline and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kriste Krstovski , Angela Soomin Ryu , Bruce Kogut

News consumption has significantly increased with the growing popularity and use of web-based forums and social media. This sets the stage for misinforming and confusing people. To help reduce the impact of misinformation on users'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Mohammad Hadi Goldani , Reza Safabakhsh , Saeedeh Momtazi

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