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Massive amounts of misinformation have been observed to spread in uncontrolled fashion across social media. Examples include rumors, hoaxes, fake news, and conspiracy theories. At the same time, several journalistic organizations devote…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Chengcheng Shao , Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

With the rapid increase in access to internet and the subsequent growth in the population of online social media users, the quality of information posted, disseminated and consumed via these platforms is an issue of growing concern. A large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Amrita Bhattacharjee , Kai Shu , Min Gao , Huan Liu

Various social media platforms, e.g., Twitter and Reddit, allow people to disseminate a plethora of information more efficiently and conveniently. However, they are inevitably full of misinformation, causing damage to diverse aspects of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Changchun Li , Bo Fu , Songwen Pei , Shengsheng Wang

Misinformation posting and spreading in Social Media is ignited by personal decisions on the truthfulness of news that may cause wide and deep cascades at a large scale in a fraction of minutes. When individuals are exposed to information,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Giancarlo Ruffo , Alfonso Semeraro

In recent years, the rampant spread of misinformation on social media has made accurate detection of multimodal fake news a critical research focus. However, previous research has not adequately understood the semantics of images, and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peican Zhu , Yubo Jing , Le Cheng , Keke Tang , Yangming Guo

Understanding attitudes expressed in texts, also known as stance detection, plays an important role in systems for detecting false information online, be it misinformation (unintentionally false) or disinformation (intentionally false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

Reputed by their low-cost, easy-access, real-time and valuable information, social media also wildly spread unverified or fake news. Rumors can notably cause severe damage on individuals and the society. Therefore, rumor detection on social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Abderrazek Azri , Cécile Favre , Nouria Harbi , Jérôme Darmont , Camille Noûs

Misinformation and fake news have become a pressing societal challenge, driving the need for reliable automated detection methods. Prior research has highlighted sentiment as an important signal in fake news detection, either by analyzing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Sahar Tahmasebi , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

Rumours in online social media pose significant risks to modern society, motivating the need for better understanding of how they develop. We focus specifically on the interface between emotion and rumours in threaded discourses, building…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Rui Xing , Boyang Sun , Kun Zhang , Preslav Nakov , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

The move of propaganda and disinformation to the online environment is possible thanks to the fact that within the last decade, digital information channels radically increased in popularity as a news source. The main advantage of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Aleš Horák , Vít Baisa , Ondřej Herman

In this paper, we address the problem of detection, classification and quantification of emotions of text in any form. We consider English text collected from social media like Twitter, which can provide information having utility in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Bharat Gaind , Varun Syal , Sneha Padgalwar

In web era, since technology has revolutionized mankind life, plenty of data and information are published on the Internet each day. For instance, news agencies publish news on their websites all over the world. These raw data could be an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Mohammad Kamel , Neda Keyvani , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

Social media is accompanied by an increasing proportion of content that provides fake information or misleading content, known as information disorder. In this paper, we study the problem of multimodal fake news detection on a largescale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Armin Kirchknopf , Djordje Slijepcevic , Matthias Zeppelzauer

Our main contribution in this work is novel results of multilingual models that go beyond typical applications of rumor or misinformation detection in English social news content to identify fine-grained classes of digital deception across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Maria Glenski , Ellyn Ayton , Josh Mendoza , Svitlana Volkova

The Internet and social media have altered how individuals access news in the age of instantaneous information distribution. While this development has increased access to information, it has also created a significant problem: the spread…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Li He , Siyi Hu , Ailun Pei

Both politics and pandemics have recently provided ample motivation for the development of machine learning-enabled disinformation (a.k.a. fake news) detection algorithms. Existing literature has focused primarily on the fully-automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Alexander Michael Daniel

The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and the lack of awareness of the existence of such false…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Kai Shu , Amrita Bhattacharjee , Faisal Alatawi , Tahora Nazer , Kaize Ding , Mansooreh Karami , Huan Liu

The use of social media platforms has been gradually increasing and fake news spreading is becoming an alarming issue nowadays. The spreading of fake news means disseminating false, confusing, and spurious information which hurts families,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Umme Faria Moon , MD Ahsan Habib Rasel , Md. Musfique Anwar

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

Displaying community fact-checks is a promising approach to reduce engagement with misinformation on social media. However, how users respond to misleading content emotionally after community fact-checks are displayed on posts is unclear.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuwei Chuai , Anastasia Sergeeva , Gabriele Lenzini , Nicolas Pröllochs