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Online misinformation is a prevalent societal issue, with adversaries relying on tools ranging from cheap fakes to sophisticated deep fakes. We are motivated by the threat scenario where an image is used out of context to support a certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Grace Luo , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in data mining field with many real-world applications. A vast majority of existing anomaly detection methods predominately focused on data collected from a single source. In real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Yuening Li , Ninghao Liu , Jundong Li , Mengnan Du , Xia Hu

This paper focuses to detect the fake news on the short video platforms. While significant research efforts have been devoted to this task with notable progress in recent years, current detection accuracy remains suboptimal due to the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Junxi Wang , Jize liu , Na Zhang , Yaxiong Wang

In the past few years, there has been a surge of interest in multi-modal problems, from image captioning to visual question answering and beyond. In this paper, we focus on hate speech detection in multi-modal memes wherein memes pose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Abhishek Das , Japsimar Singh Wahi , Siyao Li

In this work we target the problem of hate speech detection in multimodal publications formed by a text and an image. We gather and annotate a large scale dataset from Twitter, MMHS150K, and propose different models that jointly analyze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Raul Gomez , Jaume Gibert , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Two modalities are often used to convey information in a complementary and beneficial manner, e.g., in online news, videos, educational resources, or scientific publications. The automatic understanding of semantic correlations between text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Christian Otto , Matthias Springstein , Avishek Anand , Ralph Ewerth

Although social bots can be engineered for constructive applications, their potential for misuse in manipulative schemes and malware distribution cannot be overlooked. This dichotomy underscores the critical need to detect social bots on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Tingxuan Wu , Zhaorui Ma , Yanjun Cui , Ziyi Zhou , Eric Wang

In response to the escalating threat of misinformation, social media platforms have introduced a wide range of interventions aimed at reducing the spread and influence of false information. However, there is a lack of a coherent macrolevel…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Amir Karami

Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kai Shu , Guoqing Zheng , Yichuan Li , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Scott Ruston , Huan Liu

The dissemination of fake news on social networks has drawn public need for effective and efficient fake news detection methods. Generally, fake news on social networks is multi-modal and has various connections with other entities such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Tianle Li , Yushi Sun , Shang-ling Hsu , Yanjia Li , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

In this paper, we delve into the rapidly evolving challenge of misinformation detection, with a specific focus on the nuanced manipulation of narrative frames - an under-explored area within the AI community. The potential for Generative AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Guan Wang , Rebecca Frederick , Jinglong Duan , William Wong , Verica Rupar , Weihua Li , Quan Bai

In recent years, the problem of misinformation on the web has become widespread across languages, countries, and various social media platforms. Although there has been much work on automated fake news detection, the role of images and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Abdul Sittar , Eric Müller-Budack , Christian Otto , Ralph Ewerth

People now see social media sites as their sole source of information due to their popularity. The Majority of people get their news through social media. At the same time, fake news has grown exponentially on social media platforms in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Athira A B , S D Madhu Kumar , Anu Mary Chacko

Social media increasingly disseminates information through mixed image text posts, but rumors often exploit subtle inconsistencies and forged content, making detection based solely on post content difficult. Deep semantic mismatch rumors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Han Li , Hua Sun

The increasing realism of multimodal content has made misinformation more subtle and harder to detect, especially in news media where images are frequently paired with bilingual (e.g., Chinese-English) subtitles. Such content often includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yiwei He , Zhenglin Huang , Haiquan Wen , Tianxiao Li , Yi Dong , Hao Fei , Baoyuan Wu , Guangliang Cheng

In recent years, detecting fake multimodal content on social media has drawn increasing attention. Two major forms of deception dominate: human-crafted misinformation (e.g., rumors and misleading posts) and AI-generated content produced by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Haiyang Li , Yaxiong Wang , Shengeng Tang , Lianwei Wu , Lechao Cheng , Zhun Zhong

The proliferation of misinformation across diverse social media platforms has drawn significant attention from both academic and industrial communities due to its detrimental effects. Accordingly, automatically distinguishing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Yiming Wang , Changchun Li , Jiaxu Cui , Renchu Guan , Bo Yang

In recent years, we have witnessed the proliferation of large amounts of online content generated directly by users with virtually no form of external control, leading to the possible spread of misinformation. The search for effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Rishabh Upadhyay , Gabriella Pasi , Marco Viviani

Warning users about misinformation on social media is not a simple usability task. Soft moderation has to balance between debunking falsehoods and avoiding moderation bias while preserving the social media consumption flow. Platforms thus…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Filipo Sharevski , Amy Devine , Emma Pieroni , Peter Jacnim

A large amount of social media hosted on platforms like Flickr and Instagram is related to social events. The task of social event classification refers to the distinction of event and non-event-related content as well as the classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Matthias Zeppelzauer , Daniel Schopfhauser