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Internet is one of the important inventions and a large number of persons are its users. These persons use this for different purposes. There are different social media platforms that are accessible to these users. Any user can make a post…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alim Al Ayub Ahmed , Ayman Aljabouh , Praveen Kumar Donepudi , Myung Suh Choi

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

Users' involvement in creating and propagating news is a vital aspect of fake news detection in online social networks. Intuitively, credible users are more likely to share trustworthy news, while untrusted users have a higher probability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Xing Su , Jian Yang , Jia Wu , Yuchen Zhang

Social events reflect the dynamics of society and, here, natural disasters and emergencies receive significant attention. The timely detection of these events can provide organisations and individuals with valuable information to reduce or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zitai Qiu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Xing Su , Charu C. Aggarwal

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

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

In recent years, there has been a growing effort to develop effective and efficient algorithms for fake account detection in online social networks. This survey comprehensively reviews existing methods, with a focus on graph-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ali Safarpoor Dehkordi , Ahad N. Zehmakan

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

News Articles provides crucial information about various events happening in the society but they unfortunately come with different kind of biases. These biases can significantly distort public opinion and trust in the media, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Bhushan Santosh Shah , Deven Santosh Shah , Vahida Attar

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

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

An overwhelming number of true and false news stories are posted and shared in social networks, and users diffuse the stories based on multiple factors. Diffusion of news stories from one user to another depends not only on the stories'…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Jooyeon Kim , Dongkwan Kim , Alice Oh

An important aspect of preventing fake news dissemination is to proactively detect the likelihood of its spreading. Research in the domain of fake news spreader detection has not been explored much from a network analysis perspective. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Bhavtosh Rath , Aadesh Salecha , Jaideep Srivastava

Large-scale dissemination of disinformation online intended to mislead or deceive the general population is a major societal problem. Rapid progression in image, video, and natural language generative models has only exacerbated this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Reuben Tan , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko

The evolution of the information and communication technologies has dramatically increased the number of people with access to the Internet, which has changed the way the information is consumed. As a consequence of the above, fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Álvaro Ibrain Rodríguez , Lara Lloret Iglesias

As the Internet and social media evolve rapidly, distinguishing credible news from a vast amount of complex information poses a significant challenge. Due to the suddenness and instability of news events, the authenticity labels of news can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Di Jin , Jun Yang , Xiaobao Wang , Junwei Zhang , Shuqi Li , Dongxiao He

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

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

The spread of unwanted or malicious content through social media has become a major challenge. Traditional examples of this include social network spam, but an important new concern is the propagation of fake news through social media. A…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Sixie Yu , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Scott Alfeld

Social networks enable users to freely communicate with each other and share their recent news, ongoing activities or views about different topics. As a result, they can be seen as a potentially viable source of information to understand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Fattane Zarrinkalam , Ebrahim Bagheri