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Misinformation such as fake news is one of the big challenges of our society. Research on automated fact-checking has proposed methods based on supervised learning, but these approaches do not consider external evidence apart from labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Kashyap Popat , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a significant threat to the integrity of information dissemination, particularly on social media platforms. Misinformation can spread quickly due to the ease of creating and disseminating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mesay Gemeda Yigezu , Melkamu Abay Mersha , Girma Yohannis Bade , Jugal Kalita , Olga Kolesnikova , Alexander Gelbukh

Fact verification has attracted a lot of attention in the machine learning and natural language processing communities, as it is one of the key methods for detecting misinformation. Existing large-scale benchmarks for this task have focused…

As social media becomes increasingly prominent in our day to day lives, it is increasingly important to detect informative content and prevent the spread of disinformation and unverified rumours. While many sophisticated and successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Kellin Pelrine , Jacob Danovitch , Reihaneh Rabbany

In today's digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation poses threats to public well-being and societal trust. As online misinformation proliferates, manual verification by fact checkers becomes increasingly challenging. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

The detection of political fake statements is crucial for maintaining information integrity and preventing the spread of misinformation in society. Historically, state-of-the-art machine learning models employed various methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mars Gokturk Buchholz

Diverse promising datasets have been designed to hold back the development of fake audio detection, such as ASVspoof databases. However, previous datasets ignore an attacking situation, in which the hacker hides some small fake clips in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiangyan Yi , Ye Bai , Jianhua Tao , Haoxin Ma , Zhengkun Tian , Chenglong Wang , Tao Wang , Ruibo Fu

The proliferation of misinformation necessitates scalable, automated fact-checking solutions. Yet, current benchmarks often overlook multilingual and topical diversity. This paper introduces a novel, dynamically extensible data set that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Lorraine Saju , Arnim Bleier , Jana Lasser , Claudia Wagner

The exponential rise of social media and digital news in the past decade has had the unfortunate consequence of escalating what the United Nations has called a global topic of concern: the growing prevalence of disinformation. Given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chris Dulhanty , Jason L. Deglint , Ibrahim Ben Daya , Alexander Wong

The widespread of fake news and misinformation in various domains ranging from politics, economics to public health has posed an urgent need to automatically fact-check information. A recent trend in fake news detection is to utilize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee

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

Online misinformation remains a critical challenge, and fact-checkers increasingly rely on claim matching systems that use sentence embedding models to retrieve relevant fact-checks. However, as users interact with claims online, they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jabez Magomere , Emanuele La Malfa , Manuel Tonneau , Ashkan Kazemi , Scott Hale

In an effort to assist factcheckers in the process of factchecking, we tackle the claim detection task, one of the necessary stages prior to determining the veracity of a claim. It consists of identifying the set of sentences, out of a long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lev Konstantinovskiy , Oliver Price , Mevan Babakar , Arkaitz Zubiaga

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

With the growth of the internet, the number of fake-news online has been proliferating every year. The consequences of such phenomena are manifold, ranging from lousy decision-making process to bullying and violence episodes. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Diego Esteves , Aniketh Janardhan Reddy , Piyush Chawla , Jens Lehmann

As the world is becoming more dependent on the internet for information exchange, some overzealous journalists, hackers, bloggers, individuals and organizations tend to abuse the gift of free information environment by polluting it with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kwadwo Osei Bonsu

Our society is facing rampant misinformation harming public health and trust. To address the societal challenge, we introduce FACT-GPT, a system leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the claim matching stage of fact-checking.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

The proliferation of false information in the digital age has become a pressing concern, necessitating the development of effective and robust detection methods. This paper offers a comprehensive review of existing false information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kun Xie , Sibo Wang

The rampant integration of social media in our every day lives and culture has given rise to fast and easier access to the flow of information than ever in human history. However, the inherently unsupervised nature of social media platforms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Bibek Upadhayay , Vahid Behzadan

Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have facilitated the spread of misinformation, necessitating automated detection systems. This systematic review evaluates 36 studies that apply machine learning (ML) and deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yunchong Liu , Xiaorui Shen , Yeyubei Zhang , Zhongyan Wang , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai , Yuchen Cao