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With the development of social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and gotten widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, people can get infected by the fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Yang Yang , Lei Zheng , Jiawei Zhang , Qingcai Cui , Zhoujun Li , Philip S. Yu

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

The standard paradigm for fake news detection mainly utilizes text information to model the truthfulness of news. However, the discourse of online fake news is typically subtle and it requires expert knowledge to use textual information to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ye Jiang , Xiaomin Yu , Yimin Wang , Xiaoman Xu , Xingyi Song , Diana Maynard

We propose multi-agent reinforcement learning as a new method for modeling fake news in social networks. This method allows us to model human behavior in social networks both in unaccustomed populations and in populations that have adapted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christoph Aymanns , Jakob Foerster , Co-Pierre Georg , Matthias Weber

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

Fact verification models have enjoyed a fast advancement in the last two years with the development of pre-trained language models like BERT and the release of large scale datasets such as FEVER. However, the challenging problem of fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Qifei Li , Wangchunshu Zhou

With the rapid development of social media, the wide dissemination of fake news on social media is increasingly threatening both individuals and society. One of the unique challenges for fake news detection on social media is how to detect…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiajun Zhang , Zhixun Li , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

With news and information being as easy to access as they currently are, it is more important than ever to ensure that people are not mislead by what they read. Recently, the rise of neural fake news (AI-generated fake news) and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Ziqing Ji , Pranav Kulkarni , Marko Neskovic , Kevin Nolan , Yan Xu

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in deception detection, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. However, statistical approaches to combating fake news has been dramatically limited by the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 William Yang Wang

To combat fake news, researchers mostly focused on detecting fake news and journalists built and maintained fact-checking sites (e.g., Snopes.com and Politifact.com). However, fake news dissemination has been greatly promoted via social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Di You , Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee , Qiang Liu

The evolution of electronic media is a mixed blessing. Due to the easy access, low cost, and faster reach of the information, people search out and devour news from online social networks. In contrast, the increasing acceptance of social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hema Karande , Rahee Walambe , Victor Benjamin , Ketan Kotecha , T. S. Raghu

In the past few years, the research community has dedicated growing interest to the issue of false news circulating on social networks. The widespread attention on detecting and characterizing false news has been motivated by considerable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francesco Pierri , Stefano Ceri

Some news headlines mislead readers with overrated or false information, and identifying them in advance will better assist readers in choosing proper news stories to consume. This research introduces million-scale pairs of news headline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Seunghyun Yoon , Kunwoo Park , Joongbo Shin , Hongjun Lim , Seungpil Won , Meeyoung Cha , Kyomin Jung

The pervasiveness of the dissemination of fake news through social media platforms poses critical risks to the trust of the general public, societal stability, and democratic institutions. This challenge calls for novel methodologies in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingyuan Yi , Zeqiu Xu , Tianyi Huang , Peiyang Yu

Fake news articles often stir the readers' attention by means of emotional appeals that arouse their feelings. Unlike in short news texts, authors of longer articles can exploit such affective factors to manipulate readers by adding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bilal Ghanem , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Paolo Rosso , Francisco Rangel

We study question answering over a dynamic textual environment. Although neural network models achieve impressive accuracy via learning from input-output examples, they rarely leverage various types of knowledge and are generally not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Wanjun Zhong , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin

In today's technologically driven world, the rapid spread of fake news, particularly during critical events like elections, poses a growing threat to the integrity of information. To tackle this challenge head-on, we introduce FakeWatch, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shaina Raza , Tahniat Khan , Veronica Chatrath , Drai Paulen-Patterson , Mizanur Rahman , Oluwanifemi Bamgbose

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

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

Fake News and especially deepfakes (generated, non-real image or video content) have become a serious topic over the last years. With the emergence of machine learning algorithms it is now easier than ever before to generate such fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Lukas Kroiß , Johannes Reschke