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In today's digital age, fake news has become a major problem that has serious consequences, ranging from social unrest to political upheaval. To address this issue, new methods for detecting and mitigating fake news are required. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol , Marius Marogel , Adrian Paschke

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread dissemination of fake news across multiple content forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Compared to unimodal fake news detection, multimodal fake news detection benefits…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Moyang Liu , Kaiying Yan , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu , Chenxing Li

The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods that can detect fake news from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

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

The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers have made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources, thus increasing the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Bennett Kleinberg , Alexandra Lefevre , Rada Mihalcea

With the rapid development of online social media platforms, the spread of rumours has become a critical societal concern. Current methods for rumour detection can be categorized into image-text pair classification and source-reply graph…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Tsun-Hin Cheung , Kin-Man Lam

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 online spreading of fake news is a major issue threatening entire societies. Much of this spreading is enabled by new media formats, namely social networks and online media sites. Researchers and practitioners have been trying to answer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Jakub Simko , Patrik Racsko , Matus Tomlein , Martin Hanakova , Robert Moro , Maria Bielikova

To defend against fake news, researchers have developed various methods based on texts. These methods can be grouped as 1) pattern-based methods, which focus on shared patterns among fake news posts rather than the claim itself; and 2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Qiang Sheng , Xueyao Zhang , Juan Cao , Lei Zhong

We tackle the problem of classifying news articles pertaining to disinformation vs mainstream news by solely inspecting their diffusion mechanisms on Twitter. Our technique is inherently simple compared to existing text-based approaches, as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Francesco Pierri , Carlo Piccardi , Stefano Ceri

The surge in the spread of misleading information, lies, propaganda, and false facts, frequently known as fake news, raised questions concerning social media's influence in today's fast-moving democratic society. The widespread and rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Prashansa Agrawal , Parwat Singh Anjana , Sathya Peri

The abundance of information in digital media, which in today's world is the main source of knowledge about current events for the masses, makes it possible to spread disinformation on a larger scale than ever before. Consequently, there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Leś , Paweł Zyblewski , Paweł Ksieniewicz , Michał Woźniak

The battle against the spread of misinformation on the Internet is a daunting task faced by modern society. Fake news content is primarily distributed through digital platforms, with websites dedicated to producing and disseminating such…

Many people use social networking services (SNSs) to easily access various news. There are numerous ways to obtain and share ``fake news,'' which are news carrying false information. To address fake news, several studies have been conducted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Taichi Murayama , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Our work considers leveraging crowd signals for detecting fake news and is motivated by tools recently introduced by Facebook that enable users to flag fake news. By aggregating users' flags, our goal is to select a small subset of news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Sebastian Tschiatschek , Adish Singla , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Arpit Merchant , Andreas Krause

Development of methods to detect fake news (FN) in low-resource languages has been impeded by a lack of training data. In this study, we solve the problem by using only training data from a high-resource language. Our FN-detection system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Sangdo Han

'Fake news' is information that generally spreads on the web, which only mimics the form of reliable news media content. The phenomenon has assumed uncontrolled proportions in recent years rising the concern of authorities and citizens. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Davide Bennato , Giuseppe Pernagallo , Benedetto Torrisi

As social media platforms are evolving from text-based forums into multi-modal environments, the nature of misinformation in social media is also transforming accordingly. Taking advantage of the fact that visual modalities such as images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sara Abdali , Sina shaham , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Deep networks can usually depend on extracting more structural information to improve denoising results. However, they may ignore correlation between pixels from an image to pursue better denoising performance. Window transformer can use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Chunwei Tian , Menghua Zheng , Chia-Wen Lin , Zhiwu Li , David Zhang

The explosive growth of fake news along with destructive effects on politics, economy, and public safety has increased the demand for fake news detection. Fake news on social media does not exist independently in the form of an article.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yuxiang Ren , Bo Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Yi Chang