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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

With the development of social media, various rumors can be easily spread on the Internet and such rumors can have serious negative effects on society. Thus, it has become a critical task for social media platforms to deal with suspected…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ran Wang , Kehan Du , Qianhe Chen , Yifei Zhao , Mojie Tang , Hongxi Tao , Shipan Wang , Yiyao Li , Yong Wang

With the development of social media, rumors have been spread broadly on social media platforms, causing great harm to society. Beside textual information, many rumors also use manipulated images or conceal textual information within images…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Lin Bai , Caiyan Jia , Ziying Song , Chaoqun Cui

With the rise of social media, rumor detection has drawn increasing attention. Although numerous methods have been proposed with the development of rumor classification datasets, they focus on identifying whether a post is a rumor, lacking…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bin Ma , Yifei Zhang , Yongjin Xian , Qi Li , Linna Zhou , Gongxun Miao

The spread of rumors through social media and online social networks can not only disrupt the daily lives of citizens but also result in loss of life and property. A rumor spreads when individuals, who are unable decide the authenticity of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-29 Bhushan Kotnis , Joy Kuri

Rumor models consider that information transmission occurs with the same probability between each pair of nodes. However, this assumption is not observed in social networks, which contain influential spreaders. To overcome this limitation,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-08 Didier A. Vega-Oliveros , Luciano da F. Costa , Francisco A. Rodrigues

The development of social media platforms has revolutionized the speed and manner in which information is disseminated, leading to both beneficial and detrimental effects on society. While these platforms facilitate rapid communication,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liu Yan , Liu Yunpeng , Zhao Liang

The rapid growth of social media has resulted in an explosion of online news content, leading to a significant increase in the spread of misleading or false information. While machine learning techniques have been widely applied to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hao Chen , Hui Guo , Baochen Hu , Shu Hu , Jinrong Hu , Siwei Lyu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

Social media platforms have become key channels for spreading and tracking rumors due to their widespread accessibility and ease of information sharing. Rumors can continuously emerge across diverse domains and topics, often with the intent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohadeseh Sheikhqoraei , Zainabolhoda Heshmati , Zeinab Rajabi , Leila Rabiei

Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, has become one of the most important channels for information dissemination. However, these social media platforms are often misused to spread rumors, which has brought about severe social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Shuai Wang , Qingchao Kong , Yuqi Wang , Lei Wang

Rumors flooding on rapidly-growing online social networks has geared much attention from many fronts. Individuals can transmit rumors via numerous channels since they can be active on multiple platforms. However, no systematic theoretical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-22 Jiajun Xian , Dan Yang , Liming Pan , Ming Liu , Wei Wang

Detecting rumors on social media is a very critical task with significant implications to the economy, public health, etc. Previous works generally capture effective features from texts and the propagation structure. However, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Lingwei Wei , Dou Hu , Wei Zhou , Zhaojuan Yue , Songlin Hu

Rumor detection on social media has become increasingly important. Most existing graph-based models presume rumor propagation trees (RPTs) have deep structures and learn sequential stance features along branches. However, through…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

Rumour detection is hard because the most accurate systems operate retrospectively, only recognizing rumours once they have collected repeated signals. By then the rumours might have already spread and caused harm. We introduce a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Yumeng Qin , Dominik Wurzer , Victor Lavrenko , Cunchen Tang

We address rumor detection by learning to differentiate between the community's response to real and fake claims in microblogs. Existing state-of-the-art models are based on tree models that model conversational trees. However, in social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Ling Min Serena Khoo , Hai Leong Chieu , Zhong Qian , Jing Jiang

Fake news is pervasive on social media, inflicting substantial harm on public discourse and societal well-being. We investigate the explicit structural information and textual features of news pieces by constructing a heterogeneous graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuchen Zhang , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Hao Fan

Social Media has seen a tremendous growth in the last decade and is continuing to grow at a rapid pace. With such adoption, it is increasingly becoming a rich source of data for opinion mining and sentiment analysis. The detection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Jing Chen , Haonan Sun , Keyang Xu

Increased usage of social media caused the popularity of news and events which are not even verified, resulting in spread of rumors allover the web. Due to widely available social media platforms and increased usage caused the data to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Anant Khandelwal

Analysing how people react to rumours associated with news in social media is an important task to prevent the spreading of misinformation, which is nowadays widely recognized as a dangerous tendency. In social media conversations, users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Endang Wahyu Pamungkas , Valerio Basile , Viviana Patti

In the absence of an authoritative statement about a rumor, people may expose the truth behind such rumor through their responses on social media. Most rumor detection methods aggregate the information of all the responses and have made…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jun Li , Yi Bin , Liang Peng , Yang Yang , Yangyang Li , Hao Jin , Zi Huang