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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning, positioning them as promising tools for supporting human problem-solving. However, what happens when their performance is affected by misinformation, i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yiyang Feng , Yichen Wang , Shaobo Cui , Boi Faltings , Mina Lee , Jiawei Zhou

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) carry the potential to support humans in processing vast amounts of information. While MLLMs are already being used as a fact-checking tool, their abilities and limitations in this regard are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Jiahui Geng , Yova Kementchedjhieva , Preslav Nakov , Iryna Gurevych

It is challenging to control the quality of online information due to the lack of supervision over all the information posted online. Manual checking is almost impossible given the vast number of posts made on online media and how quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Rini Anggrainingsih , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

The recent success in language generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, Bard, Llama etc., can potentially lead to concerns about their possible misuse in inducing mass agitation and communal hatred via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shrey Satapara , Parth Mehta , Debasis Ganguly , Sandip Modha

Misinformation spreads rapidly on social media, confusing the truth and targeting potentially vulnerable people. To effectively mitigate the negative impact of misinformation, it must first be accurately detected before applying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Owen Cook , Charlie Grimshaw , Ben Wu , Sophie Dillon , Jack Hicks , Luke Jones , Thomas Smith , Matyas Szert , Xingyi Song

In an era increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence, the detection of fake news is crucial, especially in contexts like election seasons where misinformation can have significant societal impacts. This study evaluates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Sahas Koka , Anthony Vuong , Anish Kataria

In the digital age, the prevalence of misleading news headlines poses a significant challenge to information integrity, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. This study explores the efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Md Main Uddin Rony , Md Mahfuzul Haque , Mohammad Ali , Ahmed Shatil Alam , Naeemul Hassan

A drastic rise in potentially life-threatening misinformation has been a by-product of the COVID-19 pandemic. Computational support to identify false information within the massive body of data on the topic is crucial to prevent harm.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jan Philip Wahle , Nischal Ashok , Terry Ruas , Norman Meuschke , Tirthankar Ghosal , Bela Gipp

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the realm of mathematical reasoning necessitates comprehensive evaluations to gauge progress and inspire future directions. Existing assessments predominantly focus on problem-solving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Xiaoyuan Li , Wenjie Wang , Moxin Li , Junrong Guo , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng

Disinformation spreads rapidly across linguistic boundaries, yet most AI models are still benchmarked only on English. We address this gap with a systematic comparison of five multilingual transformer models: mBERT, XLM, XLM-RoBERTa,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zaur Gouliev , Jennifer Waters , Chengqian Wang

Misinformation is a complex societal issue, and mitigating solutions are difficult to create due to data deficiencies. To address this, we have curated the largest collection of (mis)information datasets in the literature, totaling 75. From…

Nowadays, the spread of misinformation is a prominent problem in society. Our research focuses on aiding the automatic identification of misinformation by analyzing the persuasive strategies employed in textual documents. We introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Danial Kamali , Joseph Romain , Huiyi Liu , Wei Peng , Jingbo Meng , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Conversational prompt-engineering-based large language models (LLMs) have enabled targeted control over the output creation, enhancing versatility, adaptability and adhoc retrieval. From another perspective, digital misinformation has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dahlia Shehata , Robin Cohen , Charles Clarke

Climate misinformation is a problem that has the potential to be substantially aggravated by the development of Large Language Models (LLMs). In this study we evaluate the potential for LLMs to be part of the solution for mitigating online…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mowafak Allaham , Ayse D. Lokmanoglu , P. Sol Hart , Erik C. Nisbet

Misinformation is still a major societal problem and the arrival of Large Language Models (LLMs) only added to it. This paper analyzes synthetic, false, and genuine information in the form of text from spectral analysis, visualization, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Vishnu S. Pendyala , Madhulika Dutta

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can amplify online misinformation, they also show promise in tackling misinformation. In this paper, we empirically study the capabilities of three LLMs -- ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude -- in countering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Adiba Mahbub Proma , Neeley Pate , James Druckman , Gourab Ghoshal , Hangfeng He , Ehsan Hoque

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved a degree of success in generating coherent and contextually relevant text, yet they remain prone to a significant challenge known as hallucination: producing information that is not substantiated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ray Li , Tanishka Bagade , Kevin Martinez , Flora Yasmin , Grant Ayala , Michael Lam , Kevin Zhu

This article introduces misinfo-general, a benchmark dataset for evaluating misinformation models' ability to perform out-of-distribution generalization. Misinformation changes rapidly, much more quickly than moderators can annotate at…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ivo Verhoeven , Pushkar Mishra , Ekaterina Shutova

The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) across critical domains has amplified the societal risks posed by algorithmically generated misinformation. Unlike traditional false content, LLM-generated misinformation can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shuliang Liu , Hongyi Liu , Aiwei Liu , Bingchen Duan , Qi Zheng , Yibo Yan , He Geng , Peijie Jiang , Jia Liu , Xuming Hu

With the proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs), the detection of misinformation has become increasingly important and complex. This research proposes an innovative verifiable misinformation detection LLM agent that goes beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zikun Cui , Tianyi Huang , Chia-En Chiang , Cuiqianhe Du