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The plague of false information, popularly called fake news has affected lives of news consumers ever since the prevalence of social media. Thus understanding the spread of false information in social networks has gained a lot of attention…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Bhavtosh Rath , Wei Gao , Jaideep Srivastava

There are many real-world knowledge based networked systems with multi-type interacting entities that can be regarded as heterogeneous networks including human connections and biological evolutions. One of the main issues in such networks…

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Early rumor detection (ERD) on social media platform is very challenging when limited, incomplete and noisy information is available. Most of the existing methods have largely worked on event-level detection that requires the collection of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jie Gao , Sooji Han , Xingyi Song , Fabio Ciravegna

The proliferation of misinformation on social media has raised significant societal concerns, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. Large Language Models such as GPT-4 and LLaMA2 have been envisioned as possible tools for detecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianyi Huang , Jingyuan Yi , Peiyang Yu , Xiaochuan Xu

Recent work in the domain of misinformation detection has leveraged rich signals in the text and user identities associated with content on social media. But text can be strategically manipulated and accounts reopened under different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Nir Rosenfeld , Aron Szanto , David C. Parkes

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

Kyle (1985) proposes two types of rumors: informed rumors which are based on some private information and uninformed rumors which are not based on any information (i.e. bluffing). Also, prior studies find that when people have credible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Alex Kim , Sangwon Yoon

The prevalence and perniciousness of fake news has been a critical issue on the Internet, which stimulates the development of automatic fake news detection in turn. In this paper, we focus on the evidence-based fake news detection, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Weizhi Xu , Junfei Wu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

The abundance of information in digital media, which in today's world is the main source of knowledge about current events for the masses, makes it possible to spread disinformation on a larger scale than ever before. Consequently, there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Leś , Paweł Zyblewski , Paweł Ksieniewicz , Michał Woźniak

In today's digital age, fake news has become a major problem that has serious consequences, ranging from social unrest to political upheaval. To address this issue, new methods for detecting and mitigating fake news are required. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol , Marius Marogel , Adrian Paschke

Social networks (SNs) are increasingly important sources of news for many people. The online connections made by users allows information to spread more easily than traditional news media (e.g., newspaper, television). However, they also…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ting Su , Craig Macdonald , Iadh Ounis

Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have facilitated the spread of misinformation, necessitating automated detection systems. This systematic review evaluates 36 studies that apply machine learning (ML) and deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yunchong Liu , Xiaorui Shen , Yeyubei Zhang , Zhongyan Wang , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai , Yuchen Cao

Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social media, producing all kinds of updates related to news stories, albeit with the caveat that some of those early updates tend to be rumours, i.e., information with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

To combat fake news, researchers mostly focused on detecting fake news and journalists built and maintained fact-checking sites (e.g., Snopes.com and Politifact.com). However, fake news dissemination has been greatly promoted via social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Di You , Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee , Qiang Liu

The widespread availability of internet access and handheld devices confers to social media a power similar to the one newspapers used to have. People seek affordable information on social media and can reach it within seconds. Yet this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol , Radu-Cătălin Nicolescu , Panagiotis Karras

In recent years, multimodal multidomain fake news detection has garnered increasing attention. Nevertheless, this direction presents two significant challenges: (1) Failure to Capture Cross-Instance Narrative Consistency: existing models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yiheng Li , Weihai Lu , Hanyi Yu , Yue Wang

Information on social media spreads through an underlying diffusion network that connects people of common interests and opinions. This diffusion network often comprises multiple layers, each capturing the spreading dynamics of a certain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yan Xia , Ted Hsuan Yun Chen , Mikko Kivelä

Due to the rapid spread of rumors on social media, rumor detection has become an extremely important challenge. Recently, numerous rumor detection models which utilize textual information and the propagation structure of events have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xiang Tao , Liang Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Fake news detection in social media has become increasingly important due to the rapid proliferation of personal media channels and the consequential dissemination of misleading information. Existing methods, which primarily rely on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wanqing Zhao , Yuta Nakashima , Haiyuan Chen , Noboru Babaguchi

The blooming of fake news on social networks has devastating impacts on society, economy, and public security. Although numerous studies are conducted for the automatic detection of fake news, the majority tend to utilize deep neural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yasan Ding , Bin Guo , Yan Liu , Yunji Liang , Haocheng Shen , Zhiwen Yu