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The World Wide Web has become a popular source for gathering information and news. Multimodal information, e.g., enriching text with photos, is typically used to convey the news more effectively or to attract attention. Photo content can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Eric Müller-Budack , Jonas Theiner , Sebastian Diering , Maximilian Idahl , Ralph Ewerth

Social media misinformation harms individuals and societies and is potentialized by fast-growing multi-modal content (i.e., texts and images), which accounts for higher "credibility" than text-only news pieces. Although existing supervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Hao Sun , Anderson Rocha , Haoliang Li

Misinformation on the web increasingly appears in multimodal forms, combining text, images, and OCR-rendered content in ways that amplify harm to public trust and vulnerable communities. While prior fact-checking systems often rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Aditya Kishore , Gaurav Kumar , Jasabanta Patro

Recently, fake news with text and images have achieved more effective diffusion than text-only fake news, raising a severe issue of multimodal fake news detection. Current studies on this issue have made significant contributions to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Peng Qi , Juan Cao , Xirong Li , Huan Liu , Qiang Sheng , Xiaoyue Mi , Qin He , Yongbiao Lv , Chenyang Guo , Yingchao Yu

Fake news often involves multimedia information such as text and image to mislead readers, proliferating and expanding its influence. Most existing fake news detection methods apply the co-attention mechanism to fuse multimodal features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Linmei Hu , Ziwang Zhao , Weijian Qi , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Nie

With the rapid development of deepfake technology, especially the deep audio fake technology, misinformation detection on the social media scene meets a great challenge. Social media data often contains multimodal information which includes…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Moyang Liu , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Xuefei Liu , Guanjun Li

Infodemics and health misinformation have significant negative impact on individuals and society, exacerbating confusion and increasing hesitancy in adopting recommended health measures. Recent advancements in generative AI, capable of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhihao Zhang , Yiran Zhang , Xiyue Zhou , Liting Huang , Imran Razzak , Preslav Nakov , Usman Naseem

The proliferation of multimodal misinformation poses growing threats to public discourse and societal trust. While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have enabled recent progress in multimodal misinformation detection (MMD), the rise of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Fanxiao Li , Jiaying Wu , Tingchao Fu , Yunyun Dong , Bingbing Song , Wei Zhou

Multimodal fake news detection has garnered significant attention due to its profound implications for social security. While existing approaches have contributed to understanding cross-modal consistency, they often fail to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tianlin Zhang , En Yu , Yi Shao , Jiande Sun

Multimodal misinformation on online social platforms is becoming a critical concern due to increasing credibility and easier dissemination brought by multimedia content, compared to traditional text-only information. While existing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

As growing usage of social media websites in the recent decades, the amount of news articles spreading online rapidly, resulting in an unprecedented scale of potentially fraudulent information. Although a plenty of studies have applied the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hao Chen , Peng Zheng , Xin Wang , Shu Hu , Bin Zhu , Jinrong Hu , Xi Wu , Siwei Lyu

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

Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture. It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations. Using automatic machine learning classification models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

Multimodal fake news detection often involves modelling heterogeneous data sources, such as vision and language. Existing detection methods typically rely on fusion effectiveness and cross-modal consistency to model the content,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lingzhi Shen , Yunfei Long , Xiaohao Cai , Imran Razzak , Guanming Chen , Kang Liu , Shoaib Jameel

Multimodal fake news detection (MFND) aims to verify news credibility by jointly exploiting textual and visual evidence. However, real-world news dissemination frequently suffers from missing modality due to deleted images, corrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kai Qian , Weijie Shi , Jiaqi Wang , Mengze Li , Hao Chen , Yue Cui , Hanghui Guo , Ziyi Liu , Jia Zhu , Jiajie Xu

This paper focuses to detect the fake news on the short video platforms. While significant research efforts have been devoted to this task with notable progress in recent years, current detection accuracy remains suboptimal due to the rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Junxi Wang , Jize liu , Na Zhang , Yaxiong Wang

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for fake news detection. However, state-of-the-art approaches are usually trained on datasets of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Sahar Tahmasebi , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth , Eric Müller-Budack

As information exists in various modalities in real world, effective interaction and fusion among multimodal information plays a key role for the creation and perception of multimodal data in computer vision and deep learning research. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu , Rongliang Wu , Jiahui Zhang , Shijian Lu , Lingjie Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Eric Xing

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread dissemination of fake news across multiple content forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Traditional unimodal detection methods fall short in addressing complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Moyang Liu , Kaiying Yan , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu , Chenxing Li

Preventing the spread of misinformation is challenging. The detection of misleading content presents a significant hurdle due to its extreme linguistic and domain variability. Content-based models have managed to identify deceptive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Flavio Merenda , José Manuel Gómez-Pérez