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The spreading COVID-19 misinformation over social media already draws the attention of many researchers. According to Google Scholar, about 26000 COVID-19 related misinformation studies have been published to date. Most of these studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Ye Jiang , Xingyi Song , Carolina Scarton , Ahmet Aker , Kalina Bontcheva

Automated fact-checking has drawn considerable attention over the past few decades due to the increase in the diffusion of misinformation on online platforms. This is often carried out as a sequence of tasks comprising (i) the detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Fact checking is an essential task in journalism; its importance has been highlighted due to recently increased concerns and efforts in combating misinformation. In this paper, we present an automated fact-checking platform which given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Sebastião Miranda , David Nogueira , Afonso Mendes , Andreas Vlachos , Andrew Secker , Rebecca Garrett , Jeff Mitchel , Zita Marinho

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machine learning-based methods for detecting such fake news,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Dimitris Spithouris , Evangelos P. Markatos , Nicolas Kourtellis

We present a new fact-checking benchmark, Check-COVID, that requires systems to verify claims about COVID-19 from news using evidence from scientific articles. This approach to fact-checking is particularly challenging as it requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Gengyu Wang , Kate Harwood , Lawrence Chillrud , Amith Ananthram , Melanie Subbiah , Kathleen McKeown

Disinformation has become a serious problem on social media. In particular, given their short format, visual attraction, and humorous nature, memes have a significant advantage in dissemination among online communities, making them an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jingnong Qu , Liunian Harold Li , Jieyu Zhao , Sunipa Dev , Kai-Wei Chang

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

The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods that can detect fake news from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

The rapid growth of social media content during the current pandemic provides useful tools for disseminating information which has also become a root for misinformation. Therefore, there is an urgent need for fact-checking and effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Sarah Alqurashi , Btool Hamoui , Abdulaziz Alashaikh , Ahmad Alhindi , Eisa Alanazi

Malicious accounts spreading misinformation has led to widespread false and misleading narratives in recent times, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and social media platforms struggle to eliminate these contents rapidly. This is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Karishma Sharma , Emilio Ferrara , Yan Liu

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a significant rise in the spread of misinformation on online platforms such as Twitter. Oftentimes this growth is blamed on the idea of the "echo chamber." However, the behavior said to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Caleb Stam , Emily Saldanha , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Anurag Acharya

Since 2016, the amount of academic research with the keyword "misinformation" has more than doubled [2]. This research often focuses on article headlines shown in artificial testing environments, yet misinformation largely spreads through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Emily Saltz , Claire Leibowicz , Claire Wardle

Social media such as Twitter is a hotspot of user-generated information. In this ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, there has been an abundance of data on social media which can be classified as informative and uninformative content. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Sirigireddy Dhanalaxmi , Rohit Agarwal , Aman Sinha

Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach: to assess the truthfulness of a statement, instead of relying on a few experts, a crowd of non-expert is exploited. We study whether crowdsourcing…

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

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, millions of people have succumbed to this deadly virus. Many attempts have been made to devise an automated method of testing that could detect the virus. Various researchers around the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Samyak Prajapati , Japman Singh Monga , Shaanya Singh , Amrit Raj , Yuvraj Singh Champawat , Chandra Prakash

Identification of Fake News plays a prominent role in the ongoing pandemic, impacting multiple aspects of day-to-day life. In this work we present a solution to the shared task titled COVID19 Fake News Detection in English, scoring the 50th…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Boshko Koloski , Timen Stepišnik Perdih , Senja Pollak , Blaž Škrlj

The development of social media platforms has revolutionized the speed and manner in which information is disseminated, leading to both beneficial and detrimental effects on society. While these platforms facilitate rapid communication,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liu Yan , Liu Yunpeng , Zhao Liang

As of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic is full-blown on a global scale, people's need to have access to legitimate information regarding COVID-19 is more urgent than ever, especially via online media where the abundance of irrelevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Thai Quoc Hoang , Phuong Thu Vu

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz