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False news that spreads on social media has proliferated over the past years and has led to multi-aspect threats in the real world. While there are studies of false news on specific domains (like politics or health care), little work is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , H. Russell Bernard , Kai Shu , Jintao Li , Huan Liu

Medical fact-checking has become increasingly critical as more individuals seek medical information online. However, existing datasets predominantly focus on human-generated content, leaving the verification of content generated by large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tong Chen , Zimu Wang , Yiyi Miao , Haoran Luo , Yuanfei Sun , Wei Wang , Zhengyong Jiang , Procheta Sen , Jionglong Su

Due to the evolution of the Web and social network platforms it becomes very easy to disseminate the information. Peoples are creating and sharing more information than ever before, which may be misleading, misinformation or fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dharmaraj R. Patil

Misinformation is becoming increasingly prevalent on social media and in news articles. It has become so widespread that we require algorithmic assistance utilising machine learning to detect such content. Training these machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Dan Saattrup Nielsen , Ryan McConville

During sudden onset crisis events, the presence of spam, rumors and fake content on Twitter reduces the value of information contained on its messages (or "tweets"). A possible solution to this problem is to use machine learning to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Aditi Gupta , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Carlos Castillo , Patrick Meier

Nowadays, People prefer to follow the latest news on social media, as it is cheap, easily accessible, and quickly disseminated. However, it can spread fake or unreliable, low-quality news that intentionally contains false information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zainab A. Jawad , Ahmed J. Obaid

The rising growth of fake news and misleading information through online media outlets demands an automatic method for detecting such news articles. Of the few limited works which differentiate between trusted vs other types of news article…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vaibhav Vaibhav , Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Eduard Hovy

Today's social media platforms enable to spread both authentic and fake news very quickly. Some approaches have been proposed to automatically detect such "fake" news based on their content, but it is difficult to agree on universal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Oana Balmau , Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Alexandre Maurer , Matej Pavlovic , Willy Zwaenepoel

The explosion of misinformation spreading in the media ecosystem urges for automated fact-checking. While misinformation spans both geographic and linguistic boundaries, most work in the field has focused on English. Datasets and tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xuming Hu , Zhijiang Guo , Guanyu Wu , Aiwei Liu , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu

Social networks offer a ready channel for fake and misleading news to spread and exert influence. This paper examines the performance of different reputation algorithms when applied to a large and statistically significant portion of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Luca de Alfaro , Massimo Di Pierro , Rakshit Agrawal , Eugenio Tacchini , Gabriele Ballarin , Marco L. Della Vedova , Stefano Moret

Fake news is a type of pervasive propaganda that spreads misinformation online, taking advantage of social media's extensive reach to manipulate public perception. Over the past three years, fake news has become a focal discussion point in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Qi Jia Sun

Fake news detection remains a critical challenge in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, where misinformation can spread faster than ever before. Traditional fake news detection models often rely on static datasets and auxiliary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ruoyu Xu , Gaoxiang Li

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 pervasive influence of misinformation has far-reaching and detrimental effects on both individuals and society. The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed an alarming surge in the dissemination of medical misinformation. However, existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yanshen Sun , Jianfeng He , Shuo Lei , Limeng Cui , Chang-Tien Lu

The proliferation of fake news poses a significant threat not only by disseminating misleading information but also by undermining the very foundations of democracy. The recent advance of generative artificial intelligence has further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Cheng Niu , Yang Guan , Yuanhao Wu , Juno Zhu , Juntong Song , Randy Zhong , Kaihua Zhu , Siliang Xu , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

Most existing text reading benchmarks make it difficult to evaluate the performance of more advanced deep learning models in large vocabularies due to the limited amount of training data. To address this issue, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yipeng Sun , Jiaming Liu , Wei Liu , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingtuo Liu

Social media has become a popular means for people to consume news. Meanwhile, it also enables the wide dissemination of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information, which brings significant negative effects to the society.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Kai Shu , Deepak Mahudeswaran , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

Fake news has emerged as a critical global issue, magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the need for effective preventive tools. Leveraging machine learning, including deep learning techniques, offers promise in combatting fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Dylan Warman , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

Fake news can significantly misinform people who often rely on online sources and social media for their information. Current research on fake news detection has mostly focused on analyzing fake news content and how it propagates on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Niraj Sitaula , Chilukuri K. Mohan , Jennifer Grygiel , Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

The rapid spread of fake news presents a significant global challenge, particularly in low-resource languages like Bangla, which lack adequate datasets and detection tools. Although manual fact-checking is accurate, it is expensive and slow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hrithik Majumdar Shibu , Shrestha Datta , Md. Sumon Miah , Nasrullah Sami , Mahruba Sharmin Chowdhury , Md. Saiful Islam