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Both accuracy and timeliness are key factors in detecting fake news on social media. However, most existing methods encounter an accuracy-timeliness dilemma: Content-only methods guarantee timeliness but perform moderately because of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Qiong Nan , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Yongchun Zhu , Danding Wang , Guang Yang , Jintao Li

Fake news and misinformation spread rapidly on the Internet. How to identify it and how to interpret the identification results have become important issues. In this paper, we propose a Dual Co-Attention Network (Dual-CAN) for fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Sin-Han Yang , Chung-Chi Chen , Hen-Hsen Huang , Hsin-Hsi Chen

The rapid spread of information via social media has made text-based fake news detection critically important due to its societal impact. This paper presents a novel detection method called Dynamic Representation and Ensemble Selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Faramarz Farhangian , Leandro A. Ensina , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Rafael M. O. Cruz

Fake news may be intentionally created to promote economic, political and social interests, and can lead to negative impacts on humans beliefs and decisions. Hence, detection of fake news is an emerging problem that has become extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gisel Bastidas Guacho , Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Fake News Detection is an essential problem in the field of Natural Language Processing. The benefits of an effective solution in this area are manifold for the goodwill of society. On a surface level, it broadly matches with the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lovedeep Singh

The proliferation of social media platforms has fueled the rapid dissemination of fake news, posing threats to our real-life society. Existing methods use multimodal data or contextual information to enhance the detection of fake news by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Liang Xiao , Qi Zhang , Chongyang Shi , Shoujin Wang , Usman Naseem , Liang Hu

Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kai Shu , Guoqing Zheng , Yichuan Li , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Scott Ruston , Huan Liu

Fake news on social media is a widespread and serious problem in today's society. Existing fake news detection methods focus on finding clues from Long text content, such as original news articles and user comments. This paper solves the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

Nowadays, fake news easily propagates through online social networks and becomes a grand threat to individuals and society. Assessing the authenticity of news is challenging due to its elaborately fabricated contents, making it difficult to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ujun Jeong , Kaize Ding , Lu Cheng , Ruocheng Guo , Kai Shu , Huan Liu

The buzz over the so-called "fake news" has created concerns about a degenerated media environment and led to the need for technological solutions. As the detection of fake news is increasingly considered a technological problem, it has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Frosso Papanastasiou , Georgios Katsimpras , Georgios Paliouras

Recent years have seen an explosion in social media usage, allowing people to connect with others. Since the appearance of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, such platforms influence how we speak, think, and behave. This problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Taminul Islam , MD Alamin Hosen , Akhi Mony , MD Touhid Hasan , Israt Jahan , Arindom Kundu

Media coverage has a substantial effect on the public perception of events. Nevertheless, media outlets are often biased. One way to bias news articles is by altering the word choice. The automatic identification of bias by word choice is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Timo Spinde

ExFake is an explainable fake news detection system based on content and context-level information. It is concerned with the veracity analysis of online posts based on their content, social context (i.e., online users' credibility and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sabrine Amri , Henri-Cedric Mputu Boleilanga , Esma Aïmeur

It has been argued that fake news and the spread of false information pose a threat to societies throughout the world, from influencing the results of elections to hindering the efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nathaniel Hoy , Theodora Koulouri

Fake news detection remains a challenging problem due to the complex interplay between textual misinformation, manipulated images, and external knowledge reasoning. While existing approaches have achieved notable results in verifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tuan-Vinh La , Minh-Hieu Nguyen , Minh-Son Dao

With the rapid growth of online information, the spread of fake news has become a serious social challenge. In this study, we propose a novel detection framework based on Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify and classify fake news by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaochuan Xu , Peiyang Yu , Zeqiu Xu , Jiani Wang

The threat that online fake news and misinformation pose to democracy, justice, public confidence, and especially to vulnerable populations, has led to a sharp increase in the need for fake news detection and intervention. Whether…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhaoyang Cao , John Nguyen , Reza Zafarani

The widespread dissemination of fake news on social media poses significant risks, necessitating timely and accurate detection. However, existing methods struggle with unseen news due to their reliance on training data from past events and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shuzhi Gong , Richard Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

The problem associated with the propagation of fake news continues to grow at an alarming scale. This trend has generated much interest from politics to academia and industry alike. We propose a framework that detects and classifies fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Oluwaseun Ajao , Deepayan Bhowmik , Shahrzad Zargari

Fake news and misinformation have been increasingly used to manipulate popular opinion and influence political processes. To better understand fake news, how they are propagated, and how to counter their effect, it is necessary to first…

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