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With the growing popularity and ease of access to the internet, the problem of online rumors is escalating. People are relying on social media to gain information readily but fall prey to false information. There is a lack of credibility…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Chahat Raj , Priyanka Meel

Social media increasingly disseminates information through mixed image text posts, but rumors often exploit subtle inconsistencies and forged content, making detection based solely on post content difficult. Deep semantic mismatch rumors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Han Li , Hua Sun

The spread of rumors on social media, particularly during significant events like the US elections and the COVID-19 pandemic, poses a serious threat to social stability and public health. Current rumor detection methods primarily rely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yusong Zhang , Kun Xie , Xingyi Zhang , Xiangyu Dong , Sibo Wang

Although significant effort has been applied to fact-checking, the prevalence of fake news over social media, which has profound impact on justice, public trust and our society, remains a serious problem. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Yi Han , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

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

Fake news gains has gained significant momentum, strongly motivating the need for fake news research. Many fake news detection approaches have thus been proposed, where most of them heavily rely on news content. However, network-based clues…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

Recently, online social media has become a primary source for new information and misinformation or rumours. In the absence of an automatic rumour detection system the propagation of rumours has increased manifold leading to serious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shaswat Patel , Prince Bansal , Preeti Kaur

In the past few years, the research community has dedicated growing interest to the issue of false news circulating on social networks. The widespread attention on detecting and characterizing false news has been motivated by considerable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francesco Pierri , Stefano Ceri

With the development of social media, social communication has changed. While this facilitates people's communication and access to information, it also provides an ideal platform for spreading rumors. In normal or critical situations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

Fake news travels at unprecedented speeds, reaches global audiences and puts users and communities at great risk via social media platforms. Deep learning based models show good performance when trained on large amounts of labeled data on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yaqing Wang , Fenglong Ma , Haoyu Wang , Kishlay Jha , Jing Gao

The pervasiveness of the dissemination of fake news through social media platforms poses critical risks to the trust of the general public, societal stability, and democratic institutions. This challenge calls for novel methodologies in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingyuan Yi , Zeqiu Xu , Tianyi Huang , Peiyang Yu

Reputed by their low-cost, easy-access, real-time and valuable information, social media also wildly spread unverified or fake news. Rumors can notably cause severe damage on individuals and the society. Therefore, rumor detection on social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Abderrazek Azri , Cécile Favre , Nouria Harbi , Jérôme Darmont , Camille Noûs

Graphs are now ubiquitous in almost every field of research. Recently, new research areas devoted to the analysis of graphs and data associated to their vertices have emerged. Focusing on dynamical processes, we propose a fast, robust and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Kirell Benzi , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

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

As recent events have demonstrated, disinformation spread through social networks can have dire political, economic and social consequences. Detecting disinformation must inevitably rely on the structure of the network, on users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Marius Paraschiv , Nikos Salamanos , Costas Iordanou , Nikolaos Laoutaris , Michael Sirivianos

In recent years, malicious information had an explosive growth in social media, with serious social and political backlashes. Recent important studies, featuring large-scale analyses, have produced deeper knowledge about this phenomenon,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francesco Pierri , Carlo Piccardi , Stefano Ceri

Fake news detection is a significant challenge in the digital age, which has become increasingly important with the proliferation of social media and online communication networks. Graph Neural Networks (GNN)-based methods have shown high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Batool Lakzaei , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Alireza Bagheri

With the current shift in the mass media landscape from journalistic rigor to social media, personalized social media is becoming the new norm. Although the digitalization progress of the media brings many advantages, it also increases the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

Disinformation has long been regarded as a severe social problem, where fake news is one of the most representative issues. What is worse, today's highly developed social media makes fake news widely spread at incredible speed, bringing in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Hao Liao , Qixin Liu , Kai Shu , Xing xie

Rumor spreaders are increasingly utilizing multimedia content to attract the attention and trust of news consumers. Though quite a few rumor detection models have exploited the multi-modal data, they seldom consider the inconsistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Mengzhu Sun , Xi Zhang , Jianqiang Ma , Sihong Xie , Yazheng Liu , Philip S. Yu