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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

Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, has become one of the most important channels for information dissemination. However, these social media platforms are often misused to spread rumors, which has brought about severe social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Shuai Wang , Qingchao Kong , Yuqi Wang , Lei Wang

With the proliferation of social media, the detection of fake news has become a critical issue that poses a significant threat to society. The dissemination of fake information can lead to social harm and damage the credibility of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Qian Chang , Xia Lia , Patrick S. W. Fong

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

A promising tool for addressing fake news detection is Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, most existing GNN-based methods rely on binary classification, categorizing news as either real or fake. Additionally, traditional GNN models use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Batool Lakzaei , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Alireza Bagheri

The propagation of rumours on social media poses an important threat to societies, so that various techniques for rumour detection have been proposed recently. Yet, existing work focuses on \emph{what} entities constitute a rumour, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Cong Phan , Minh Hieu Nguyen , Matthias Weidlich , Hongzhi Yin , Jun Jo , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

The spread of rumors along with breaking events seriously hinders the truth in the era of social media. Previous studies reveal that due to the lack of annotated resources, rumors presented in minority languages are hard to be detected.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongzhan Lin , Pengyao Yi , Jing Ma , Haiyun Jiang , Ziyang Luo , Shuming Shi , Ruifang Liu

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

The role of social media in opinion formation has far-reaching implications in all spheres of society. Though social media provide platforms for expressing news and views, it is hard to control the quality of posts due to the sheer volumes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rini Anggrainingsih , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

Over the past few years, there has been a substantial effort towards automated detection of fake news on social media platforms. Existing research has modeled the structure, style, content, and patterns in dissemination of online posts, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Shantanu Chandra , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Madhav Nimishakavi , Marzieh Saeidi , Ekaterina Shutova

Online social networks provide a convenient platform for the spread of rumors, which could lead to serious aftermaths such as economic losses and public panic. The classical rumor blocking problem aims to launch a set of nodes as a positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Jianxiong Guo , Tiantian Chen , Weili Wu

Fake news, false or misleading information presented as news, has a significant impact on many aspects of society, such as in politics or healthcare domains. Due to the deceiving nature of fake news, applying Natural Language Processing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Jian Cui , Kwanwoo Kim , Seung Ho Na , Seungwon Shin

Fake news detection has become a research area that goes way beyond a purely academic interest as it has direct implications on our society as a whole. Recent advances have primarily focused on textbased approaches. However, it has become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Gregor Donabauer , Udo Kruschwitz

Rumors are rampant in the era of social media. Conversation structures provide valuable clues to differentiate between real and fake claims. However, existing rumor detection methods are either limited to the strict relation of user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Mingfei Cheng , Zhiwei Yang , Liangliang Chen , Guang Chen

Automatic detecting rumors on social media has become a challenging task. Previous studies focus on learning indicative clues from conversation threads for identifying rumorous information. However, these methods only model rumorous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yang Wu , Jing Yang , Xiaojun Zhou , Liming Wang , Zhen Xu

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

The truth is significantly hampered by massive rumors that spread along with breaking news or popular topics. Since there is sufficient corpus gathered from the same domain for model training, existing rumor detection algorithms show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Ruichao Yang , Zhiwei Yang , Mingfei Cheng

Today's social networks continuously generate massive streams of data, which provide a valuable starting point for the detection of rumours as soon as they start to propagate. However, rumour detection faces tight latency bounds, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Hongzhi Yin , Matthias Weidlich , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Thai Son Mai , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

Fake news on social media is increasingly regarded as one of the most concerning issues. Low cost, simple accessibility via social platforms, and a plethora of low-budget online news sources are some of the factors that contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Fahim Belal Mahmud , Mahi Md. Sadek Rayhan , Mahdi Hasan Shuvo , Islam Sadia , Md. Kishor Morol

The dissemination of fake news on social networks has drawn public need for effective and efficient fake news detection methods. Generally, fake news on social networks is multi-modal and has various connections with other entities such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Tianle Li , Yushi Sun , Shang-ling Hsu , Yanjia Li , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong