English
Related papers

Related papers: Zero-Shot Rumor Detection with Propagation Structu…

200 papers

In this work, we investigate to use Large Language Models (LLMs) for rumor detection on social media. However, it is challenging for LLMs to reason over the entire propagation information on social media, which contains news contents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Qiang Liu , Xiang Tao , Junfei Wu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Verifying rumors on social media is critical for mitigating the spread of false information. The stances of conversation replies often provide important cues to determine a rumor's veracity. However, existing models struggle to jointly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Gibson Nkhata , Uttamasha Anjally Oyshi , Quan Mai , Susan Gauch

The rapid proliferation of rumors on social networks poses a significant threat to information integrity. While rumor dissemination forms complex structural patterns, existing detection methods often fail to capture the intricate interplay…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiran Tao , Cheng Wang , Binyan Jiang

To manage the rumors in social media to reduce the harm of rumors in society. Many studies used methods of deep learning to detect rumors in open networks. To comprehensively sort out the research status of rumor detection from multiple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Li Tan , Ge Wang , Feiyang Jia , Xiaofeng Lian

The prevalence of social media has made information sharing possible across the globe. The downside, unfortunately, is the wide spread of misinformation. Methods applied in most previous rumor classifiers give an equal weight, or attention,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Sansiri Tarnpradab , Kien A. Hua

Rumors spread dramatically fast through online social media services, and people are exploring methods to detect rumors automatically. Existing methods typically learn semantic representations of all reposts to a rumor candidate for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Changhe Song , Cunchao Tu , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Rumor detection has become an emerging and active research field in recent years. At the core is to model the rumor characteristics inherent in rich information, such as propagation patterns in social network and semantic patterns in post…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yuan Gao , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Huamin Feng , Yongdong Zhang

The task of rumour verification in social media concerns assessing the veracity of a claim on the basis of conversation threads that result from it. While previous work has focused on predicting a veracity label, here we reformulate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Iman Munire Bilal , Preslav Nakov , Rob Procter , Maria Liakata

Automatically verifying rumorous information has become an important and challenging task in natural language processing and social media analytics. Previous studies reveal that people's stances towards rumorous messages can provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Penghui Wei , Nan Xu , Wenji Mao

The rapid development of social media changes the lifestyle of people and simultaneously provides an ideal place for publishing and disseminating rumors, which severely exacerbates social panic and triggers a crisis of social trust. Early…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Chunyuan Yuan , Wanhui Qian , Qianwen Ma , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Social media platforms have become one of the main channels where people disseminate and acquire information, of which the reliability is severely threatened by rumors widespread in the network. Existing approaches such as suspending users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hongyuan Su , Yu Zheng , Jingtao Ding , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and fake news. Many efforts have been taken to detect and debunk…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Quanzhi Li , Qiong Zhang , Luo Si , Yingchi Liu

With social media becoming ubiquitous, information consumption from this media has also increased. However, one of the serious problems that have emerged with this increase, is the propagation of rumors. Therefore, rumor identification is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Mingxuan Chen , Ning Wang , K. P. Subbalakshmi

A crucial aspect of a rumor detection model is its ability to generalize, particularly its ability to detect emerging, previously unknown rumors. Past research has indicated that content-based (i.e., using solely source posts as input)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yida Mu , Xingyi Song , Kalina Bontcheva , Nikolaos Aletras

With the rise of short video platforms as prominent channels for news dissemination, major platforms in China have gradually evolved into fertile grounds for the proliferation of fake news. However, distinguishing short video rumors poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Yuxing Yang , Junhao Zhao , Siyi Wang , Xiangyu Min , Pengchao Wang , Haizhou Wang

Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and news gathering, its unmoderated nature often leads to the emergence and spread of rumours, i.e. pieces of information that are unverified at the time of posting. At…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Ahmet Aker , Kalina Bontcheva , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

Social media platforms have become key channels for spreading and tracking rumors due to their widespread accessibility and ease of information sharing. Rumors can continuously emerge across diverse domains and topics, often with the intent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohadeseh Sheikhqoraei , Zainabolhoda Heshmati , Zeinab Rajabi , Leila Rabiei

Due to the rapid spread of rumors on social media, rumor detection has become an extremely important challenge. Existing methods for rumor detection have achieved good performance, as they have collected enough corpus from the same data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiang Tao , Mingqing Zhang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

With the development of network technology, many social media are flourishing. Due to imperfect Internet regulation, the spread of false rumors has become a common problem on those social platforms. Social platforms can generate rumor data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Huidong Wang , Chuanzheng Bai , Jinli Yao

In recent years people have become increasingly reliant on social media to read news and get information, and some social media users post unsubstantiated information to gain attention. Such information is known as rumours. Nowadays, rumour…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yaohou Fan