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News in social media such as Twitter has been generated in high volume and speed. However, very few of them can be labeled (as fake or true news) in a short time. In order to achieve timely detection of fake news in social media, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Xishuang Dong , Uboho Victor , Shanta Chowdhury , Lijun Qian

Our work advances an approach for predicting hate speech in social media, drawing out the critical need to consider the discussions that follow a post to successfully detect when hateful discourse may arise. Using graph transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Liam Hebert , Hong Yi Chen , Robin Cohen , Lukasz Golab

Automatic fake news detection models are ostensibly based on logic, where the truth of a claim made in a headline can be determined by supporting or refuting evidence found in a resulting web query. These models are believed to be reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Ian Kelk , Benjamin Basseri , Wee Yi Lee , Richard Qiu , Chris Tanner

Most fact checking models for automatic fake news detection are based on reasoning: given a claim with associated evidence, the models aim to estimate the claim veracity based on the supporting or refuting content within the evidence. When…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Casper Hansen , Christian Hansen , Lucas Chaves Lima

The spread of fake news has emerged as a critical challenge, undermining trust and posing threats to society. In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the capability to generate believable fake content has intensified these concerns. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jinyan Su , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jonibek Mansurov , Di Wang , Preslav Nakov

The prevalence and perniciousness of fake news have been a critical issue on the Internet, which stimulates the development of automatic fake news detection in turn. In this paper, we focus on evidence-based fake news detection, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Junfei Wu , Weizhi Xu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Nowadays, the rapid diffusion of fake news poses a significant problem, as it can spread misinformation and confusion. This paper aims to develop an advanced machine learning solution for detecting fake news articles. Leveraging a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tanjina Sultana Camelia , Faizur Rahman Fahim , Md. Musfique Anwar

The distribution of fake news is not a new but a rapidly growing problem. The shift to news consumption via social media has been one of the drivers for the spread of misleading and deliberately wrong information, as in addition to it of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Philipp Hartl , Udo Kruschwitz

Nowadays, artificial intelligence algorithms are used for targeted and personalized content distribution in the large scale as part of the intense competition for attention in the digital media environment. Unfortunately, targeted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sina Mohseni , Eric Ragan

With the pandemic of COVID-19, relevant fake news is spreading all over the sky throughout the social media. Believing in them without discrimination can cause great trouble to people's life. However, universal language models may perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Ben Chen , Bin Chen , Dehong Gao , Qijin Chen , Chengfu Huo , Xiaonan Meng , Weijun Ren , Yang Zhou

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for fake news detection. However, state-of-the-art approaches are usually trained on datasets of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Sahar Tahmasebi , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth , Eric Müller-Budack

Fake news generally refers to false information that is spread deliberately to deceive people, which has detrimental social effects. Existing fake news detection methods primarily learn the semantic features from news content or integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengyang Chen , Lingwei Wei , Han Cao , Wei Zhou , Zhou Yan , Songlin Hu

Graph generative models become increasingly effective for data distribution approximation and data augmentation. While they have aroused public concerns about their malicious misuses or misinformation broadcasts, just as what Deepfake…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yihan Ma , Zhikun Zhang , Ning Yu , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

In the era of misinformation and information inflation, the credibility assessment of the produced news is of the essence. However, fact-checking can be challenging considering the limited references presented in the news. This challenge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Angelika Romanou , Panayiotis Smeros , Karl Aberer

With the widespread use of the internet and handheld devices, social media now holds a power similar to that of old newspapers. People use social media platforms for quick and accessible information. However, this convenience comes with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Maria-Diana Cotelin , Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

The ease of spreading false information online enables individuals with malicious intent to manipulate public opinion and destabilize social stability. Recently, fake news detection based on evidence retrieval has gained popularity in an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hao Liao , Jiaohao Peng , Zhanyi Huang , Wei Zhang , Guanghua Li , Kai Shu , Xing Xie

News in social media such as Twitter has been generated in high volume and speed. However, very few of them are labeled (as fake or true news) by professionals in near real time. In order to achieve timely detection of fake news in social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Xishuang Dong , Uboho Victor , Lijun Qian

With the improvements in generative models, the issues of producing hallucinations in various domains (e.g., law, writing) have been brought to people's attention due to concerns about misinformation. In this paper, we focus on neural fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Wei-Yao Wang , Yu-Chieh Chang , Wen-Chih Peng

Fake news may be intentionally created to promote economic, political and social interests, and can lead to negative impacts on humans beliefs and decisions. Hence, detection of fake news is an emerging problem that has become extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gisel Bastidas Guacho , Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Fake news is a severe problem in social media. In this paper, we present an empirical study on visual, textual, and multimodal models for the tasks of claim, claim check-worthiness, and conspiracy detection, all of which are related to fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth