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Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture. It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations. Using automatic machine learning classification models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

Fake news detection remains a challenging problem due to the complex interplay between textual misinformation, manipulated images, and external knowledge reasoning. While existing approaches have achieved notable results in verifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tuan-Vinh La , Minh-Hieu Nguyen , Minh-Son Dao

The present level of proliferation of fake, biased, and propagandistic content online has made it impossible to fact-check every single suspicious claim or article, either manually or automatically. Thus, many researchers are shifting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Preslav Nakov , Husrev Taha Sencar , Jisun An , Haewoon Kwak

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

Social networks have become one of the main information channels for human beings due to the immediate and social interactivity they offer, allowing in some cases to publish what each user considers relevant. This has brought with it the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Luis Rojas Rubio , Claudio Meneses Villegas

Fake news detection is crucial for preventing the dissemination of misinformation on social media. To differentiate fake news from real ones, existing methods observe the language patterns of the news post and "zoom in" to verify its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Xueyao Zhang , Rundong Li , Danding Wang , Yongchun Zhu

Social media data are often modeled as heterogeneous graphs with multiple types of nodes and edges. We present a discovery algorithm that first chooses a "background" graph based on a user's analytical interest and then automatically…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Subhasis Dasgupta , Amarnath Gupta

Since fake news poses a serious threat to society and individuals, numerous studies have been brought by considering text, propagation and user profiles. Due to the data collection problem, these methods based on propagation and user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yuhang Wang , Li Wang , Yanjie Yang , Yilin Zhang

Fake news emerged as an apparent global problem during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Addressing it requires a multidisciplinary effort to define the nature and extent of the problem, detect fake news in real time, and mitigate its…

Fake news spreads widely on social media, leading to numerous negative effects. Most existing detection algorithms focus on analyzing news content and social context to detect fake news. However, these approaches typically detect fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Congyuan Zhao , Lingwei Wei , Ziming Qin , Wei Zhou , Yunya Song , Songlin Hu

Community detection, aiming to group the graph nodes into clusters with dense inner-connection, is a fundamental graph mining task. Recently, it has been studied on the heterogeneous graph, which contains multiple types of nodes and edges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Linhao Luo , Yixiang Fang , Xin Cao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Wenjie Zhang

Story ending generation is an interesting and challenging task, which aims to generate a coherent and reasonable ending given a story context. The key challenges of the task lie in how to comprehend the story context sufficiently and handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Jiaan Wang , Beiqi Zou , Zhixu Li , Jianfeng Qu , Pengpeng Zhao , An Liu , Lei Zhao

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

Fake news detection aims to detect fake news widely spreading on social media platforms, which can negatively influence the public and the government. Many approaches have been developed to exploit relevant information from news images,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Quanjiang Guo , Zhao Kang , Ling Tian , Zhouguo Chen

The easy sharing of multimedia content on social media has caused a rapid dissemination of fake news, which threatens society's stability and security. Therefore, fake news detection has garnered extensive research interest in the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yangming Zhou , Yuzhou Yang , Qichao Ying , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Fake news existed ever since there was news, from rumors to printed media then radio and television. Recently, the information age, with its communications and Internet breakthroughs, exacerbated the spread of fake news. Additionally, aside…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Fatema Al Mukhaini , Shaikhah Al Abdoulie , Aisha Al Kharuosi , Amal El Ahmad , Monther Aldwairi

Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. Social media appeals to users due to its fast dissemination of information, low cost, and easy access. However, social media also enables the widespread of fake news.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Kai Shu , Xinyi Zhou , Suhang Wang , Reza Zafarani , Huan Liu

Fake news is fabricated information that is presented as genuine, with intention to deceive the reader. Recently, the magnitude of people relying on social media for news consumption has increased significantly. Owing to this rapid…

Traditional Graph Neural Network (GNN) approaches for fake news detection (FND) often depend on auxiliary, non-textual data such as user interaction histories or content dissemination patterns. However, these data sources are not always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anantram Patel , Vijay Kumar Sutrakar

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