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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

An increasingly common expression of online hate speech is multimodal in nature and comes in the form of memes. Designing systems to automatically detect hateful content is of paramount importance if we are to mitigate its undesirable…

With the increasing popularity of smart devices, rumors with multimedia content become more and more common on social networks. The multimedia information usually makes rumors look more convincing. Therefore, finding an automatic approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Weiming Wen , Songwen Su , Zhou Yu

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

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

The widespread dissemination of rumors on social media has a significant impact on people's lives, potentially leading to public panic and fear. Rumors often evoke specific sentiments, resonating with readers and prompting sharing. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhiwei Liu , Kailai Yang , Eduard Hovy , Sophia Ananiadou

Rumours have existed for a long time and have been known for serious consequences. The rapid growth of social media platforms has multiplied the negative impact of rumours; it thus becomes important to early detect them. Many methods have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Tien Huu Do , Xiao Luo , Duc Minh Nguyen , Nikos Deligiannis

The nuisance of misinformation and fake news has escalated many folds since the advent of online social networks. Human consciousness and decision-making capabilities are negatively influenced by manipulated, fabricated, biased or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Priyanka Meel , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

The explosive growth of rumors with text and images on social media platforms has drawn great attention. Existing studies have made significant contributions to cross-modal information interaction and fusion, but they fail to fully explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jiawei Liu , Jingyi Xie , Fanrui Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Zheng-jun Zha

The widespread dissemination of multimodal content on social media has made misinformation detection increasingly challenging, as misleading narratives often arise not only from textual or visual content alone, but also from semantic…

The prevalence of social media has made information sharing possible across the globe. The downside, unfortunately, is the wide spread of misinformation. Methods applied in most previous rumor classifiers give an equal weight, or attention,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Sansiri Tarnpradab , Kien A. Hua

Fake news detection is an important task for increasing the credibility of information on the media since fake news is constantly spreading on social media every day and it is a very serious concern in our society. Fake news is usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Nguyen Manh Duc Tuan , Pham Quang Nhat Minh

Social networking sites, blogs, and online articles are instant sources of news for internet users globally. However, in the absence of strict regulations mandating the genuineness of every text on social media, it is probable that some of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Arjun Choudhry , Inder Khatri , Minni Jain , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

With the pervasiveness of online media data as a source of information verifying the validity of this information is becoming even more important yet quite challenging. Rumors spread a large quantity of misinformation on microblogs. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Sardar Hamidian , Mona T Diab

With a surge in the usage of social media postings to express opinions, emotions, and ideologies, there has been a significant shift towards the calibration of social media as a rapid medium of conveying viewpoints and outlooks over the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mohammad Kashif , Mohammad Zohair , Saquib Ali

The proliferation of multi-modal fake news on social media poses a significant threat to public trust and social stability. Traditional detection methods, primarily text-based, often fall short due to the deceptive interplay between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Junhao He , Tianyu Liu , Jingyuan Zhao , Benjamin Turner

The wide spread of rumors on social media has caused a negative impact on people's daily life, leading to potential panic, fear, and mental health problems for the public. How to debunk rumors as early as possible remains a challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tianrui Liu , Qi Cai , Changxin Xu , Bo Hong , Fanghao Ni , Yuxin Qiao , Tsungwei Yang

Previous researches on multimedia fake news detection include a series of complex feature extraction and fusion networks to gather useful information from the news. However, how cross-modal consistency relates to the fidelity of news and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Qichao Ying , Xiaoxiao Hu , Yangming Zhou , Zhenxing Qian , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

The proliferation of disinformation, particularly in multimodal contexts combining text and images, presents a significant challenge across digital platforms. This study investigates the potential of large multimodal models (LMMs) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yasmina Kheddache , Marc Lalonde

In the absence of an authoritative statement about a rumor, people may expose the truth behind such rumor through their responses on social media. Most rumor detection methods aggregate the information of all the responses and have made…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jun Li , Yi Bin , Liang Peng , Yang Yang , Yangyang Li , Hao Jin , Zi Huang