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With an increase in financial accounting fraud in the current economic scenario experienced, financial accounting fraud detection has become an emerging topics of great importance for academics, research and industries. Financial fraud is a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-05 H. Lookman Sithic , T. Balasubramanian

The rise of the internet and computational power in recent years allowed for the exponential growth of misinformation phenomena. An issue that was a non-issue a decade ago, became a challenge for societal cohesion. The emergence of this new…

Social media are pervaded by unsubstantiated or untruthful rumors, that contribute to the alarming phenomenon of misinformation. The widespread presence of a heterogeneous mass of information sources may affect the mechanisms behind the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Fabiana Zollo , Walter Quattrociocchi

Social Media is a cyber-security risk for every business. What do people share on the Internet? Almost everything about oneself is shared: friendship, demographics, family, activities, and work-related information. This could become a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Guerrino Mazzarolo , Juan Carlos Fernandez Casas , Anca Delia Jurcut , Nhien-AnLe-Khac

Modern social media platforms play an important role in facilitating rapid dissemination of information through their massive user networks. Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mor Oren-Loberman , Vered Azar , Wasim Huleihel

The proliferation of online misinformation has emerged as one of the biggest threats to society. Considerable efforts have focused on building misinformation detection models, still the perils of misinformation remain abound. Mitigating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Mohit Chandra , Anush Mattapalli , Munmun De Choudhury

Over the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of misinformation on the Internet, with online users constantly falling victims of fake news. A multitude of past studies have analyzed fake news diffusion mechanics and detection and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Manolis Chalkiadakis , Alexandros Kornilakis , Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Evangelos P. Markatos , Nicolas Kourtellis

The rise of social media financial influencers (finfluencers) has significantly transformed the personal finance landscape, making financial advice and insights more accessible to a broader and younger audience. By leveraging digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Essam Ghadafi , Panagiotis Andriotis

In the wake of the arrival of digital media, the Internet, the web, and online social media, a flood of new cyber security research questions have emerged. There is a lot of money being lost around the world because of cyber-attacks. As a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kashif Ishaq , Sidra Fareed

This paper presents the research of the influence of cognitive, behavioral, representational factors on the susceptibility of the participants in social networks to misinformation, as well as on the activity of the nodes in this regard. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Yuri Monakhov , Maria Medvednikova , Konstantin Abramov , Natalia Kostina , Roman Malyshev , Makarov Oleg , Irina Semenova

This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on the belief in false information, including misinformation, disinformation, and fake information. It addresses the increasing societal concern regarding false information, which is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Fabian Walke , Thaddäa Nürnberger

In recent years, scholars have raised concerns on the effects that unreliable news, or "fake news," has on our political sphere, and our democracy as a whole. For example, the propagation of fake news on social media is widely believed to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Banafsheh Behzad , Bhavana Bheem , Daniela Elizondo , Deyana Marsh , Susan Martonosi

The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods that can detect fake news from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

Emerging information technologies like social media, search engines, and AI can have a broad impact on public health, political institutions, social dynamics, and the natural world. It is critical to develop a scientific understanding of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Joseph Bak-Coleman , Cailin O'Connor , Carl Bergstrom , Jevin West

Since 2016, the amount of academic research with the keyword "misinformation" has more than doubled [2]. This research often focuses on article headlines shown in artificial testing environments, yet misinformation largely spreads through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Emily Saltz , Claire Leibowicz , Claire Wardle

As social media platforms are evolving from text-based forums into multi-modal environments, the nature of misinformation in social media is also transforming accordingly. Taking advantage of the fact that visual modalities such as images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sara Abdali , Sina shaham , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The internet promised to democratize access to knowledge and make the world more open and understanding. The reality of today's internet, however, is far from this ideal. Misinformation, lies, and conspiracies dominate many social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Vibhor Sehgal , Ankit Peshin , Sadia Afroz , Hany Farid

Financial literacy and financial education are important components of modern life. The importance of financial literacy is increasing for financial consumers because of the weakening of both government and employer-based retirement…

General Economics · Economics 2021-04-23 Paul Bechly

Misinformation proliferation on social media platforms is a pervasive threat to the integrity of online public discourse. Genuine users, susceptible to others' influence, often unknowingly engage with, endorse, and re-share questionable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jinyi Ye , Luca Luceri , Julie Jiang , Emilio Ferrara

The spread of disinformation on social platforms is harmful to society. This harm may manifest as a gradual degradation of public discourse; but it can also take the form of sudden dramatic events such as the 2021 insurrection on Capitol…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Shehroze Khan , James R. Wright