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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

Online fake news moderation now faces a new challenge brought by the malicious use of large language models (LLMs) in fake news production. Though existing works have shown LLM-generated fake news is hard to detect from an individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Beizhe Hu , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Yang Li , Danding Wang

With their advanced capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly convincing and contextually relevant fake news, which can contribute to disseminating misinformation. Though there is much research on fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rupak Kumar Das , Jonathan Dodge

Scientific facts are often spun in the popular press with the intent to influence public opinion and action, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Automatic detection of misinformation in the scientific domain is challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yupeng Cao , Aishwarya Muralidharan Nair , Nastaran Jamalipour Soofi , Elyon Eyimife , K. P. Subbalakshmi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on vast and diverse internet corpora that often include inaccurate or misleading content. Consequently, LLMs can generate misinformation, making robust fact-checking essential. This review…

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

The increasing sophistication of large language models (LLMs) has sparked growing concerns regarding their potential role in exacerbating ideological polarization through the automated generation of persuasive and biased content. This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 . Pazzaglia , V. Vendetti , L. D. Comencini , F. Deriu , V. Modugno

Fake news poses a significant threat to the integrity of information ecosystems and public trust. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) holds considerable promise for transforming the battle against fake news. Generally, LLMs represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Dorsaf Sallami , Yuan-Chen Chang , Esma Aïmeur

Professional fact-checkers rely on domain knowledge and deep contextual understanding to verify claims. Large language models (LLMs) and large reasoning models (LRMs) lack such grounding and primarily reason from available evidence alone,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Dhruv Sahnan , Subhabrata Dutta , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Preslav Nakov , Iryna Gurevych

Search engines increasingly leverage large language models (LLMs) to generate direct answers, and AI chatbots now access the Internet for fresh data. As information curators for billions of users, LLMs must assess the accuracy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Kai-Cheng Yang , Filippo Menczer

Instruction-tuning enhances the ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow user instructions more accurately, improving usability while reducing harmful outputs. However, this process may increase the model's dependence on user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kyubeen Han , Junseo Jang , Hongjin Kim , Geunyeong Jeong , Harksoo Kim

Combating fake news and misinformation propagation is a challenging task in the post-truth era. News feed and search algorithms could potentially lead to unintentional large-scale propagation of false and fabricated information with users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Sina Mohseni , Fan Yang , Shiva Pentyala , Mengnan Du , Yi Liu , Nic Lupfer , Xia Hu , Shuiwang Ji , Eric Ragan

With increasing awareness of the hallucination risks of generative artificial intelligence (AI), we see a growing shift toward providing information tooling to help users determine the veracity of AI-generated answers for themselves. User…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jessica Irons , Patrick Cooper , Necva Bolucu , Roelien Timmer , Huichen Yang , Changhyun Lee , Brian Jin , Andreas Duenser , Stephen Wan

The proliferation of fake news has had far-reaching implications on politics, the economy, and society at large. While Fake news detection methods have been employed to mitigate this issue, they primarily depend on two essential elements:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Guanghua Li , Wensheng Lu , Wei Zhang , Defu Lian , Kezhong Lu , Rui Mao , Kai Shu , Hao Liao

Modern AI technology like Large language models (LLMs) has the potential to pollute the public information sphere with made-up content, which poses a significant threat to the cohesion of societies at large. A wide range of research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Steffen Herbold , Alexander Trautsch , Zlata Kikteva , Annette Hautli-Janisz

The rapid adoption of large language models has introduced a new class of AI-generated fake news that coexists with traditional human-written misinformation, raising important questions about how these two forms of deceptive content differ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Samuel Jaeger , Calvin Ibeneye , Aya Vera-Jimenez , Dhrubajyoti Ghosh

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the large-scale generation of highly fluent and deceptive news-like content. While prior work has often treated fake news detection as a binary classification problem, modern fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xinyu Wang , Sai Koneru , Wenbo Zhang , Wenliang Zheng , Saksham Ranjan , Sarah Rajtmajer

Automated disinformation generation is often listed as an important risk associated with large language models (LLMs). The theoretical ability to flood the information space with disinformation content might have dramatic consequences for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ivan Vykopal , Matúš Pikuliak , Ivan Srba , Robert Moro , Dominik Macko , Maria Bielikova

Large language models (LLM) are generating information at a rapid pace, requiring users to increasingly rely and trust the data. Despite remarkable advances of LLM, Information generated by LLM is not completely trustworthy, due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Rick Rejeleene , Xiaowei Xu , John Talburt

The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a critical issue in recent years, requiring significant efforts to detect it. However, the existing fake news detection datasets are sourced from human journalists, which are likely to have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zizhong Li , Haopeng Zhang , Jiawei Zhang