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The digital spread of misinformation is one of the leading threats to democracy, public health, and the global economy. Popular strategies for mitigating misinformation include crowdsourcing, machine learning, and media literacy programs…

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Studying information diffusion in SNS (Social Networks Service) has remarkable significance in both academia and industry. Theoretically, it boosts the development of other subjects such as statistics, sociology, and data mining.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Huacheng Li , Chunhe Xia , Tianbo Wang , Sheng Wen , Chao Chen , Yang Xiang

We consider a two-dimensional time-inhomogeneous birth-death process to model the time-evolution of fake news in a population. The two components of the process represent, respectively, (i) the number of individuals (say spreaders) who know…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Antonio Di Crescenzo , Paola Paraggio

The current public sense of anxiety in dealing with disinformation as manifested by so-called fake news is acutely displayed by the reaction to recent events prompted by a belief in conspiracies among certain groups. A model to deal with…

A wide part of research on misinformation has relied lies on fake-news detection, a task framed as the prediction of veracity labels attached to articles or claims. Yet social-science research has repeatedly emphasized that information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Francesco Paolo Savatteri , Chahan Vidal-Gorène , Florian Cafiero

Online social networks have become a crucial medium to disseminate the latest political, commercial, and social information. Users with high visibility are often selected as seeds to spread information and affect their adoption in target…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ya-Wen Teng , Hsi-Wen Chen , De-Nian Yang , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet , Ting-Wei Li , Lydia 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

The increasing prominence of temporal networks in online social platforms and dynamic communication systems has made influence maximization a critical research area. Various diffusion models have been proposed to capture the spread of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aaqib Zahoor , Iqra Altaf Gillani , Janibul Bashir

We present Wideband Back-Projection Diffusion, an end-to-end probabilistic framework for approximating the posterior distribution induced by the inverse scattering map from wideband scattering data. This framework produces highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Borong Zhang , Martín Guerra , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Making disguise between real and fake news propagation through online social networks is an important issue in many applications. The time gap between the news release time and detection of its label is a significant step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Maryam Ramezani , Mina Rafiei , Soroush Omranpour , Hamid R. Rabiee

This paper investigates the interplay between information diffusion in social networks and its impact on financial markets with an Agent-Based Model (ABM). Agents receive and exchange information about an observable stochastic component of…

General Economics · Economics 2024-12-24 Tommaso Di Francesco , Daniel Torren Peraire

A number of recent studies of information diffusion in social media, both empirical and theoretical, have been inspired by viral propagation models derived from epidemiology. These studies model the propagation of memes, i.e., pieces of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz , Niloy Ganguly , Krishna P. Gummadi

Fake news has emerged as a pervasive problem within Online Social Networks, leading to a surge of research interest in this area. Understanding the dissemination mechanisms of fake news is crucial in comprehending the propagation of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yichen Jiang , Michael D. Porter

Social media are nowadays one of the main news sources for millions of people around the globe due to their low cost, easy access and rapid dissemination. This however comes at the cost of dubious trustworthiness and significant risk of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Federico Monti , Fabrizio Frasca , Davide Eynard , Damon Mannion , Michael M. Bronstein

With the explosive growth of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19), misinformation on social media has developed into a global phenomenon with widespread and detrimental societal effects. Despite recent progress and efforts in detecting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Mustafa Alassad , Nitin Agarwal

Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo

Fake news gains has gained significant momentum, strongly motivating the need for fake news research. Many fake news detection approaches have thus been proposed, where most of them heavily rely on news content. However, network-based clues…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

The spread of misinformation can cause social confusion. The authenticity of information on a social networking service (SNS) is unknown, and false information can be easily spread. Consequently, many studies have been conducted on methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ryusuke Iizuka , Fujio Toriumi , Mao Nishiguchi , Masanori Takano , Mitsuo Yoshida

In this modern era, communication has become faster and easier. This means fallacious information can spread as fast as reality. Considering the damage that fake news kindles on the psychology of people and the fact that such news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Amey Parundekar , Susan Elias , Ashwin Ashok

Rumor propagation in social networks undermines social stability and public trust, calling for interventions that are both effective and resource-efficient. We develop a node-level, time-varying optimal intervention framework that allocates…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yan Zhu , Qingyang Liu , Chang Guo , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lü