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Massive rumors usually appear along with breaking news or trending topics, seriously hindering the truth. Existing rumor detection methods are mostly focused on the same domain, and thus have poor performance in cross-domain scenarios due…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Hongyan Ran , Caiyan Jia

The rapid proliferation of rumors on social networks poses a significant threat to information integrity. While rumor dissemination forms complex structural patterns, existing detection methods often fail to capture the intricate interplay…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiran Tao , Cheng Wang , Binyan Jiang

Fake news detection has become a research area that goes way beyond a purely academic interest as it has direct implications on our society as a whole. Recent advances have primarily focused on textbased approaches. However, it has become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Gregor Donabauer , Udo Kruschwitz

Over the past decade, social media platforms have been key in spreading rumors, leading to significant negative impacts. To counter this, the community has developed various Rumor Detection (RD) algorithms to automatically identify them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bing Wang , Bingrui Zhao , Ximing Li , Changchun Li , Wanfu Gao , Shengsheng Wang

Today's social networks continuously generate massive streams of data, which provide a valuable starting point for the detection of rumours as soon as they start to propagate. However, rumour detection faces tight latency bounds, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Hongzhi Yin , Matthias Weidlich , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Thai Son Mai , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

With the development of network technology, many social media are flourishing. Due to imperfect Internet regulation, the spread of false rumors has become a common problem on those social platforms. Social platforms can generate rumor data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Huidong Wang , Chuanzheng Bai , Jinli Yao

It is difficult for humans to distinguish the true and false of rumors, but current deep learning models can surpass humans and achieve excellent accuracy on many rumor datasets. In this paper, we investigate whether deep learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

Recently, online social media has become a primary source for new information and misinformation or rumours. In the absence of an automatic rumour detection system the propagation of rumours has increased manifold leading to serious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shaswat Patel , Prince Bansal , Preeti Kaur

The prominent role of social media in people's daily lives has made them more inclined to receive news through social networks than traditional sources. This shift in public behavior has opened doors for some to diffuse fake news on social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Bita Azarijoo , Mostafa Salehi , Shaghayegh Najari

Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social media, producing all kinds of updates related to news stories, albeit with the caveat that some of those early updates tend to be rumours, i.e., information with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

The development of social media has revolutionized the way people communicate, share information and make decisions, but it also provides an ideal platform for publishing and spreading rumors. Existing rumor detection methods focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Chunyuan Yuan , Qianwen Ma , Wei Zhou , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

In the contemporary era of information explosion, we are often faced with the mixture of massive \emph{truth} (true information) and \emph{rumor} (false information) flooded over social networks. Under such circumstances, it is very…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Shan Qu , Ziqi Zhao , Luoyi Fu , XInbing Wang , Jun Xu

Due to the rapid spread of rumors on social media, rumor detection has become an extremely important challenge. Recently, numerous rumor detection models which utilize textual information and the propagation structure of events have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xiang Tao , Liang Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Rumor spreaders are increasingly utilizing multimedia content to attract the attention and trust of news consumers. Though quite a few rumor detection models have exploited the multi-modal data, they seldom consider the inconsistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Mengzhu Sun , Xi Zhang , Jianqiang Ma , Sihong Xie , Yazheng Liu , Philip S. Yu

Recent work have done a good job in modeling rumors and detecting them over microblog streams. However, the performance of their automatic approaches are not relatively high when looking early in the diffusion. A first intuition is that, at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tu Nguyen

The diffusion of rumors on microblogs generally follows a propagation tree structure, that provides valuable clues on how an original message is transmitted and responded by users over time. Recent studies reveal that rumor detection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ruichao Yang , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Wei Gao

With the increasing use of online social networks as a source of news and information, the propensity for a rumor to disseminate widely and quickly poses a great concern, especially in disaster situations where users do not have enough time…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Abiola Osho , Caden Waters , George Amariucai

Automatic detecting rumors on social media has become a challenging task. Previous studies focus on learning indicative clues from conversation threads for identifying rumorous information. However, these methods only model rumorous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yang Wu , Jing Yang , Xiaojun Zhou , Liming Wang , Zhen Xu

The widespread dissemination of rumors on social media has a significant impact on people's lives, potentially leading to public panic and fear. Rumors often evoke specific sentiments, resonating with readers and prompting sharing. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhiwei Liu , Kailai Yang , Eduard Hovy , Sophia Ananiadou

Social media is a rich source of rumours and corresponding community reactions. Rumours reflect different characteristics, some shared and some individual. We formulate the problem of classifying tweet level judgements of rumours as a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Michal Lukasik , Trevor Cohn , Kalina Bontcheva