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Fake news can have a significant negative impact on society because of the growing use of mobile devices and the worldwide increase in Internet access. It is therefore essential to develop a simple mathematical model to understand the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Taichi Murayama , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki , Ryota Kobayashi

Today's social media platforms enable to spread both authentic and fake news very quickly. Some approaches have been proposed to automatically detect such "fake" news based on their content, but it is difficult to agree on universal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Oana Balmau , Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexandre Maurer , Matej Pavlovic , Willy Zwaenepoel

The wide dissemination of fake news has affected our lives in many aspects, making fake news detection important and attracting increasing attention. Existing approaches make substantial contributions in this field by modeling news from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Junwei Yin , Min Gao , Kai Shu , Zehua Zhao , Yinqiu Huang , Jia Wang

In recent years, fake news detection has received increasing attention in public debate and scientific research. Despite advances in detection techniques, the production and spread of false information have become more sophisticated, driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pietro Dell'Oglio , Alessandro Bondielli , Francesco Marcelloni , Lucia C. Passaro

Fake news detection is a very prominent and essential task in the field of journalism. This challenging problem is seen so far in the field of politics, but it could be even more challenging when it is to be determined in the multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Tanik Saikh , Arkadipta De , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

The widespread dissemination of fake news on social media poses significant risks, necessitating timely and accurate detection. However, existing methods struggle with unseen news due to their reliance on training data from past events and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shuzhi Gong , Richard Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

The rapid proliferation of the Internet and the widespread adoption of social networks have significantly accelerated information dissemination. However, this transformation has introduced complexities in information capture and processing,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuchuan Jiang , Chaolong Jia , Yunyi Qin , Wei Cai , Yongsen Qian

Although not all bots are malicious, the vast majority of them are responsible for spreading misinformation and manipulating the public opinion about several issues, i.e., elections and many more. Therefore, the early detection of bots is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Loukas Ilias , Ioannis Michail Kazelidis , Dimitris Askounis

We propose Factual News Graph (FANG), a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection. Unlike previous contextual models that have targeted performance, our focus is on representation learning.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Van-Hoang Nguyen , Kazunari Sugiyama , Preslav Nakov , Min-Yen Kan

The World Wide Web has become a popular source for gathering information and news. Multimodal information, e.g., enriching text with photos, is typically used to convey the news more effectively or to attract attention. Photo content can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Eric Müller-Budack , Jonas Theiner , Sebastian Diering , Maximilian Idahl , Ralph Ewerth

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

The rapid advancement of technology in online communication via social media platforms has led to a prolific rise in the spread of misinformation and fake news. Fake news is especially rampant in the current COVID-19 pandemic, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Rutvik Vijjali , Prathyush Potluri , Siddharth Kumar , Sundeep Teki

As the world is becoming more dependent on the internet for information exchange, some overzealous journalists, hackers, bloggers, individuals and organizations tend to abuse the gift of free information environment by polluting it with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kwadwo Osei Bonsu

Transformer has significantly propelled the development of artificial intelligence, and certainly the development of agents as well. We categorize attention structures of Transformer into two types based on the source of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yongjin Cui , Xiaohui Fan , Huajun Chen

The rapid spread of fake news across multimedia platforms presents serious challenges to information credibility. In this paper, we propose a Debunk-and-Infer framework for Fake News Detection(DIFND) that leverages debunking knowledge to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Kaiying Yan , Moyang Liu , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Xuefei Liu

Nowadays, People prefer to follow the latest news on social media, as it is cheap, easily accessible, and quickly disseminated. However, it can spread fake or unreliable, low-quality news that intentionally contains false information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zainab A. Jawad , Ahmed J. Obaid

The plague of false information, popularly called fake news has affected lives of news consumers ever since the prevalence of social media. Thus understanding the spread of false information in social networks has gained a lot of attention…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Bhavtosh Rath , Wei Gao , Jaideep Srivastava

The evolution of the information and communication technologies has dramatically increased the number of people with access to the Internet, which has changed the way the information is consumed. As a consequence of the above, fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Álvaro Ibrain Rodríguez , Lara Lloret Iglesias

The recent rise of social media has led to the spread of large amounts of fake and biased news, content published with the intent to sway beliefs. While detecting and profiling the sources that spread this news is important to maintain a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nikhil Mehta , Dan Goldwasser

Today social media has become the primary source for news. Via social media platforms, fake news travel at unprecedented speeds, reach global audiences and put users and communities at great risk. Therefore, it is extremely important to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yaqing Wang , Weifeng Yang , Fenglong Ma , Jin Xu , Bin Zhong , Qiang Deng , Jing Gao