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Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

Fake news detection in social media has become increasingly important due to the rapid proliferation of personal media channels and the consequential dissemination of misleading information. Existing methods, which primarily rely on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wanqing Zhao , Yuta Nakashima , Haiyuan Chen , Noboru Babaguchi

The World Wide Web provides unrivalled access to information globally, including factual news reporting and commentary. However, state actors and commercial players increasingly spread biased (distorted) or fake (non-factual) information to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Tim Menzner , Jochen L. Leidner

The spread of fake news remains a serious global issue; understanding and curtailing it is paramount. One way of differentiating between deceptive and truthful stories is by analyzing their coherence. This study explores the use of topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Martins Samuel Dogo , Deepak P , Anna Jurek-Loughrey

In the age of information overload, content management for online news articles relies on efficient summarization to enhance accessibility and user engagement. This article addresses the challenge of extractive text summarization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sajib Biswas , Milon Biswas , Arunima Mandal , Fatema Tabassum Liza , Joy Sarker

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

As the spread of false information on the internet has increased dramatically in recent years, more and more attention is being paid to automated fake news detection. Some fake news detection methods are already quite successful.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Camille Koenders , Johannes Filla , Nicolai Schneider , Vinicius Woloszyn

Social networks (SNs) are increasingly important sources of news for many people. The online connections made by users allows information to spread more easily than traditional news media (e.g., newspaper, television). However, they also…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ting Su , Craig Macdonald , Iadh Ounis

Biased manipulation of facts across regional and national media outlets complicates misinformation detection in diverse landscapes like India. This paper introduces a novel multimodal framework combining visual and textual modalities for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kushal Trivedi , Murtuza Shaikh , Khushi Singh , Jeevaraj S.

Few-Shot Fake News Detection (FS-FND) aims to distinguish inaccurate news from real ones in extremely low-resource scenarios. This task has garnered increased attention due to the widespread dissemination and harmful impact of fake news on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ye Liu , Jiajun Zhu , Xukai Liu , Haoyu Tang , Yanghai Zhang , Kai Zhang , Xiaofang Zhou , Enhong Chen

With the rise of social media, it has become easier to disseminate fake news faster and cheaper, compared to traditional news media, such as television and newspapers. Recently this phenomenon has attracted lot of public attention, because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Shahid Alam , Abdulaziz Ravshanbekov

The popularity of online social networks has enabled rapid dissemination of information. People now can share and consume information much more rapidly than ever before. However, low-quality and/or accidentally/deliberately fake information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

As online news has become increasingly popular and fake news increasingly prevalent, the ability to audit the veracity of online news content has become more important than ever. Such a task represents a binary classification challenge, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ciara Blackledge , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

This study addresses the critical challenge of detecting DeepFake tweets by leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques to distinguish between genuine and AI-generated texts. Given the increasing prevalence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Adam Frej , Adrian Kaminski , Piotr Marciniak , Szymon Szmajdzinski , Soveatin Kuntur , Anna Wroblewska

Automatic unreliable news detection is a research problem with great potential impact. Recently, several papers have shown promising results on large-scale news datasets with models that only use the article itself without resorting to any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Xiang Zhou , Heba Elfardy , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Thomas Butler , Mohit Bansal

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

Short video platforms have become important channels for news dissemination, offering a highly engaging and immediate way for users to access current events and share information. However, these platforms have also emerged as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Weihao Zhong , Yinhao Xiao , Minghui Xu , Xiuzhen Cheng

The abundance of information in digital media, which in today's world is the main source of knowledge about current events for the masses, makes it possible to spread disinformation on a larger scale than ever before. Consequently, there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Leś , Paweł Zyblewski , Paweł Ksieniewicz , Michał Woźniak

The availability and interactive nature of social media have made them the primary source of news around the globe. The popularity of social media tempts criminals to pursue their immoral intentions by producing and disseminating fake news…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-29 Faeze Ghorbanpour , Maryam Ramezani , Mohammad A. Fazli , Hamid R. Rabiee

The spread of fake news on social media poses a serious threat to public trust and societal stability. While propagation-based methods improve fake news detection by modeling how information spreads, they often suffer from incomplete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Mengyang Chen , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu