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Connectivity plays an ever-increasing role in modern society, with people all around the world having easy access to rapidly disseminated information. However, a more interconnected society enables the spread of intentionally false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 João Vitorino , Tiago Dias , Tiago Fonseca , Nuno Oliveira , Isabel Praça

Identifying the veracity of a news article is an interesting problem while automating this process can be a challenging task. Detection of a news article as fake is still an open question as it is contingent on many factors which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Gaurav Bhatt , Aman Sharma , Shivam Sharma , Ankush Nagpal , Balasubramanian Raman , Ankush Mittal

The viral spread of fake news has caused great social harm, making fake news detection an urgent task. Current fake news detection methods rely heavily on text information by learning the extracted news content or writing style of internal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

In this system paper we present our contribution to the Constraint 2021 COVID-19 Fake News Detection Shared Task, which poses the challenge of classifying COVID-19 related social media posts as either fake or real. In our system, we address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Thomas Felber

An important aspect of preventing fake news dissemination is to proactively detect the likelihood of its spreading. Research in the domain of fake news spreader detection has not been explored much from a network analysis perspective. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Bhavtosh Rath , Aadesh Salecha , Jaideep Srivastava

Fake news threatens democracy and exacerbates the polarization and divisions in society; therefore, accurately detecting online misinformation is the foundation of addressing this issue. We present CrediRAG, the first fake news detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ashwin Ram , Yigit Ege Bayiz , Arash Amini , Mustafa Munir , Radu Marculescu

Expert systems have been used to enable computers to make recommendations and decisions. This paper presents the use of a machine learning trained expert system (MLES) for phishing site detection and fake news detection. Both topics share a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Benjamin Fitzpatrick , Xinyu "Sherwin" Liang , Jeremy Straub

Over the past years, a large number of fake news detection algorithms based on deep learning have emerged. However, they are often developed under different frameworks, each mandating distinct utilization methodologies, consequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yiyuan Zhu , Yongjun Li , Jialiang Wang , Ming Gao , Jiali Wei

The spread of fake news has emerged as a critical challenge, undermining trust and posing threats to society. In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the capability to generate believable fake content has intensified these concerns. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jinyan Su , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jonibek Mansurov , Di Wang , Preslav Nakov

Majority voting is a simple mathematical function that returns the value that appears most often in a set. As a popular decision fusion technique, the majority voting function (MVF) finds applications in resolving conflicts, where a number…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-19 Sina Aeeneh , Nikola Zlatanov , Jiangshan Yu

Large-scale dissemination of disinformation online intended to mislead or deceive the general population is a major societal problem. Rapid progression in image, video, and natural language generative models has only exacerbated this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Reuben Tan , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko

Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture. It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations. Using automatic machine learning classification models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

The exponential rise of social media and digital news in the past decade has had the unfortunate consequence of escalating what the United Nations has called a global topic of concern: the growing prevalence of disinformation. Given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chris Dulhanty , Jason L. Deglint , Ibrahim Ben Daya , Alexander Wong

With social media being a major force in information consumption, accelerated propagation of fake news has presented new challenges for platforms to distinguish between legitimate and fake news. Effective fake news detection is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Mansooreh Karami , Kai Shu , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

Most fake news detection methods learn latent feature representations based on neural networks, which makes them black boxes to classify a piece of news without giving any justification. Existing explainable systems generate veracity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Bo Wang , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Zhiwei Yang , Ruichao Yang , Yuan Tian , Yi Chang

Existing benchmarks for fake news detection have significantly contributed to the advancement of models in assessing the authenticity of news content. However, these benchmarks typically focus solely on news pertaining to a single semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ziyi Zhou , Xiaoming Zhang , Litian Zhang , Jiacheng Liu , Senzhang Wang , Zheng Liu , Xi Zhang , Chaozhuo Li , Philip S. Yu

Identification of Fake News plays a prominent role in the ongoing pandemic, impacting multiple aspects of day-to-day life. In this work we present a solution to the shared task titled COVID19 Fake News Detection in English, scoring the 50th…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Boshko Koloski , Timen Stepišnik Perdih , Senja Pollak , Blaž Škrlj

Fake news has been coming into sight in significant numbers for numerous business and political reasons and has become frequent in the online world. People can get contaminated easily by these fake news for its fabricated words which have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Md Gulzar Hussain , Md Rashidul Hasan , Mahmuda Rahman , Joy Protim , Sakib Al Hasan

User-generated content (e.g., tweets and profile descriptions) and shared content between users (e.g., news articles) reflect a user's online identity. This paper investigates whether correlations between user-generated and user-shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Liesbeth Allein , Marie-Francine Moens , Domenico Perrotta

False information spread via the internet and social media influences public opinion and user activity, while generative models enable fake content to be generated faster and more cheaply than had previously been possible. In the not so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Antonis Maronikolakis , Hinrich Schutze , Mark Stevenson