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Fake news are nowadays an issue of pressing concern, given their recent rise as a potential threat to high-quality journalism and well-informed public discourse. The Fake News Challenge (FNC-1) was organized in 2017 to encourage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Luís Borges , Bruno Martins , Pável Calado

Short video platforms have become a major medium for information sharing, but their rapid content generation and algorithmic amplification also enable the widespread dissemination of fake news. Detecting misinformation in short videos is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Haisong Gong , Bolan Su , Xinrong Zhang , Jing Li , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Deepfake detection, the task of automatically discriminating machine-generated text, is increasingly critical with recent advances in natural language generative models. Existing approaches to deepfake detection typically represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Wanjun Zhong , Duyu Tang , Zenan Xu , Ruize Wang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have enabled connection and communication on a large scale. It has revolutionized the rate at which information is shared and enhanced its reach. However, another side of the coin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Apurva Wani , Isha Joshi , Snehal Khandve , Vedangi Wagh , Raviraj Joshi

Online Social Network (OSN) has become a hotbed of fake news due to the low cost of information dissemination. Although the existing methods have made many attempts in news content and propagation structure, the detection of fake news is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Biwei Cao , Lulu Hua , Jiuxin Cao , Jie Gui , Bo Liu , James Tin-Yau Kwok

Preventing the spread of misinformation is challenging. The detection of misleading content presents a significant hurdle due to its extreme linguistic and domain variability. Content-based models have managed to identify deceptive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Flavio Merenda , José Manuel Gómez-Pérez

With the rapid development of mobile Internet technology and the widespread use of mobile devices, it becomes much easier for people to express their opinions on social media. The openness and convenience of social media platforms provide a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Qi Huang , Junshuai Yu , Jia Wu , Bin Wang

Fake news on social media is a widespread and serious problem in today's society. Existing fake news detection methods focus on finding clues from Long text content, such as original news articles and user comments. This paper solves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

Numerous studies have been proposed to detect fake news focusing on multi-modalities based on machine and/or deep learning. However, studies focusing on graph-based structures using geometric deep learning are lacking. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jun-hao , Xu

Social media is one of the main sources for news consumption, especially among the younger generation. With the increasing popularity of news consumption on various social media platforms, there has been a surge of misinformation which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Haoran Wang , Yingtong Dou , Canyu Chen , Lichao Sun , Philip S. Yu , Kai Shu

Social media is becoming a source of news for many people due to its ease and freedom of use. As a result, fake news has been spreading quickly and easily regardless of its credibility, especially in the last decade. Fake news publishers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ali Bou Nassif , Ashraf Elnagar , Omar Elgendy , Yaman Afadar

The paper presents our solutions for the MediaEval 2020 task namely FakeNews: Corona Virus and 5G Conspiracy Multimedia Twitter-Data-Based Analysis. The task aims to analyze tweets related to COVID-19 and 5G conspiracy theories to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Abdullah Hamid , Nasrullah Shiekh , Naina Said , Kashif Ahmad , Asma Gul , Laiq Hassan , Ala Al-Fuqaha

We study the problem of finding fake online news. This is an important problem as news of questionable credibility have recently been proliferating in social media at an alarming scale. As this is an understudied problem, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Social networks have become one of the main information channels for human beings due to the immediate and social interactivity they offer, allowing in some cases to publish what each user considers relevant. This has brought with it the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Luis Rojas Rubio , Claudio Meneses Villegas

In recent years, with the expansion of the Internet and attractive social media infrastructures, people prefer to follow the news through these media. Despite the many advantages of these media in the news field, the lack of any control and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ali Jarrahi , Leila Safari

The generation and spread of fake news within new and online media sources is emerging as a phenomenon of high societal significance. Combating them using data-driven analytics has been attracting much recent scholarly interest. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Iknoor Singh , Deepak P , Anoop K

The prevalence of short video platforms has spawned a lot of fake news videos, which have stronger propagation ability than textual fake news. Thus, automatically detecting fake news videos has been an important countermeasure in practice.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Peng Qi , Yuyang Zhao , Yufeng Shen , Wei Ji , Juan Cao , Tat-Seng Chua

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

The global spread of misinformation and concerns about content trustworthiness have driven the development of automated fact-checking systems. Since false information often exploits social media dynamics such as "likes" and user networks to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vítor N. Lourenço , Aline Paes , Tillman Weyde

In this work, we focus on the problem of distinguishing a human written news article from a news article that is created by manipulating entities in a human written news article (e.g., replacing entities with factually incorrect entities).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ganesh Jawahar , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan