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The landscape of social media content has evolved significantly, extending from text to multimodal formats. This evolution presents a significant challenge in combating misinformation. Previous research has primarily focused on single…

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Multimedia content has become ubiquitous on social media platforms, leading to the rise of multimodal misinformation (MM) and the urgent need for effective strategies to detect and prevent its spread. In recent years, the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

Detecting multimodal misinformation, especially in the form of image-text pairs, is crucial. Obtaining large-scale, high-quality real-world fact-checking datasets for training detectors is costly, leading researchers to use synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Fengzhu Zeng , Wenqian Li , Wei Gao , Yan Pang

Short video platforms have become important channels for news dissemination, offering a highly engaging and immediate way for users to access current events and share information. However, these platforms have also emerged as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Weihao Zhong , Yinhao Xiao , Minghui Xu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Multimodal Misinformation Detection (MMD) refers to the task of detecting social media posts involving misinformation, where the post often contains text and image modalities. However, by observing the MMD posts, we hold that the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Yanjun Wang , Changchun Li , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Buyu Wang , Shengsheng Wang

Nowadays, misinformation is widely spreading over various social media platforms and causes extremely negative impacts on society. To combat this issue, automatically identifying misinformation, especially those containing multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bing Wang , Shengsheng Wang , Changchun Li , Renchu Guan , Ximing Li

In recent years, detecting fake multimodal content on social media has drawn increasing attention. Two major forms of deception dominate: human-crafted misinformation (e.g., rumors and misleading posts) and AI-generated content produced by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Haiyang Li , Yaxiong Wang , Shengeng Tang , Lianwei Wu , Lechao Cheng , Zhun Zhong

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 proliferation of fake news on social media platforms disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations, eroding trust, exacerbating inequality, and amplifying harmful narratives. Detecting fake news in multimodal contexts -- where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yifan Liu , Yaokun Liu , Zelin Li , Ruichen Yao , Yang Zhang , Dong Wang

Misinformation has become a major challenge in the era of increasing digital information, requiring the development of effective detection methods. We have investigated a novel approach to Out-Of-Context detection (OOCD) that uses synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fatma Shalabi , Huy H. Nguyen , Hichem Felouat , Ching-Chun Chang , Isao Echizen

Nowadays, misinformation articles, especially multimodal ones, are widely spread on social media platforms and cause serious negative effects. To control their propagation, Multimodal Misinformation Detection (MMD) becomes an active topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Mengzhe Ye , Changchun Li , Bo Fu , Jianfeng Qu , Lin Yuanbo Wu

Multimodal Misinformation Recognition has become an urgent task with the emergence of huge multimodal fake content on social media platforms. Previous studies mainly focus on complex feature extraction and fusion to learn discriminative…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hengyang Zhou , Yiwei Wei , Jian Yang , Zhenyu Zhang

Recent years have witnessed the sustained evolution of misinformation that aims at manipulating public opinions. Unlike traditional rumors or fake news editors who mainly rely on generated and/or counterfeited images, text and videos,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yizhou Zhang , Loc Trinh , Defu Cao , Zijun Cui , Yan Liu

As social media platforms are evolving from text-based forums into multi-modal environments, the nature of misinformation in social media is also transforming accordingly. Taking advantage of the fact that visual modalities such as images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sara Abdali , Sina shaham , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Multimodal news contains a wealth of information and is easily affected by deepfake modeling attacks. To combat the latest image and text generation methods, we present a new Multimodal Fake News Detection dataset (MFND) containing 11…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ye Zhu , Yunan Wang , Zitong Yu

Nowadays, the widespread dissemination of misinformation across numerous social media platforms has led to severe negative effects on society. To address this challenge, the automatic detection of misinformation, particularly under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Changchun Li , Jinjin Chi , Tianze Li , Renchu Guan , Shengsheng Wang

As generative AI advances, the distinction between authentic and synthetic media is increasingly blurred, challenging the integrity of online information. In this study, we present CONVEX, a large-scale dataset of multimodal misinformation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zacharias Chrysidis , Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos , Symeon Papadopoulos

Multimodal misinformation floods on various social media, and continues to evolve in the era of AI-generated content (AIGC). The emerged misinformation with low creation cost and high deception poses significant threats to society. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junjie Wu , Guohong Fu

With the rise of easily accessible tools for generating and manipulating multimedia content, realistic synthetic alterations to digital media have become a widespread threat, often involving manipulations across multiple modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Daniele Cardullo , Simone Teglia , Irene Amerini

Amid a tidal wave of misinformation flooding social media during elections and crises, extensive research has been conducted on misinformation detection, primarily focusing on text-based or image-based approaches. However, only a few…

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