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The widespread of false information is a rising concern worldwide with critical social impact, inspiring the emergence of fact-checking organizations to mitigate misinformation dissemination. However, human-driven verification leads to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Vítor Lourenço , Aline Paes

The internet gives the world an open platform to express their views and share their stories. While this is very valuable, it makes fake news one of our society's most pressing problems. Manual fact checking process is time consuming, which…

Misleading information spreads on the Internet at an incredible speed, which can lead to irreparable consequences in some cases. It is becoming essential to develop fake news detection technologies. While substantial work has been done in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Daryna Dementieva , Mikhail Kuimov , Alexander Panchenko

Multimodal misinformation on online social platforms is becoming a critical concern due to increasing credibility and easier dissemination brought by multimedia content, compared to traditional text-only information. While existing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

Multimodal fake news detection is crucial for mitigating societal disinformation. Existing approaches attempt to address this by fusing multimodal features or leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for advanced reasoning. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Weilin Zhou , Shanwen Tan , Enhao Gu , Yurong Qian

Multimedia content has become ubiquitous on social media platforms, leading to the rise of multimodal misinformation (MM) and the urgent need for effective strategies to detect and prevent its spread. In recent years, the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

Multimodal fake news detection is crucial for mitigating adversarial misinformation. Existing methods, relying on static fusion or LLMs, face computational redundancy and hallucination risks due to weak visual foundations. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Weilin Zhou , Zonghao Ying , Chunlei Meng , Jiahui Liu , Hengyang Zhou , Quanchen Zou , Deyue Zhang , Dongdong Yang , Xiangzheng Zhang

Identifying fake news is a very difficult task, especially when considering the multiple modes of conveying information through text, image, video and/or audio. We attempted to tackle the problem of automated misinformation/disinformation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Abhishek Dhankar , Osmar R. Zaïane , Francois Bolduc

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

In this paper, we present the Logically submissions to De-Factify 2 challenge (DE-FACTIFY 2023) on the task 1 of Multi-Modal Fact Checking. We describes our submissions to this challenge including explored evidence retrieval and selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Pim Jordi Verschuuren , Jie Gao , Adelize van Eeden , Stylianos Oikonomou , Anil Bandhakavi

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

In the era of social media platforms, identifying the credibility of online content is crucial to combat misinformation. We present the CREDiBERT (CREDibility assessment using Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Arash Amini , Yigit Ege Bayiz , Ashwin Ram , Radu Marculescu , Ufuk Topcu

This paper describes our participant system for the multi-modal fact verification (Factify) challenge at AAAI 2022. Despite the recent advance in text based verification techniques and large pre-trained multimodal models cross vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jie Gao , Hella-Franziska Hoffmann , Stylianos Oikonomou , David Kiskovski , Anil Bandhakavi

Fake news detection remains a challenging problem due to the complex interplay between textual misinformation, manipulated images, and external knowledge reasoning. While existing approaches have achieved notable results in verifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tuan-Vinh La , Minh-Hieu Nguyen , Minh-Son Dao

Social media increasingly disseminates information through mixed image text posts, but rumors often exploit subtle inconsistencies and forged content, making detection based solely on post content difficult. Deep semantic mismatch rumors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Han Li , Hua Sun

Multimodal fake news video detection is a crucial research direction for maintaining the credibility of online information. Existing studies primarily verify content authenticity by constructing multimodal feature fusion representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Hui Li , Peien Ding , Jun Li , Guoqi Ma , Zhanyu Liu , Ge Xu , Junfeng Yao , Jinsong Su

In the digital age, the emergence of deepfakes and synthetic media presents a significant threat to societal and political integrity. Deepfakes based on multi-modal manipulation, such as audio-visual, are more realistic and pose a greater…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Vinaya Sree Katamneni , Ajita Rattani

Fact-checking real-world claims often requires reviewing multiple multimodal documents to assess a claim's truthfulness, which is a highly laborious and time-consuming task. In this paper, we present a summarization model designed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ting-Chih Chen , Chia-Wei Tang , Chris Thomas

In multimodal misinformation, deception usually arises not just from pixel-level manipulations in an image, but from the semantic and contextual claim jointly expressed by the image-text pair. Yet most deepfake detectors, engineered to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 A S M Sharifuzzaman Sagar , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Naeha Sharif , Lian Xu , Shaaban Sahmoud , Ali Kishk

Large Language Models (LLMs) augmented with retrieval mechanisms have demonstrated significant potential in fact-checking tasks by integrating external knowledge. However, their reliability decreases when confronted with conflicting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ziyu Ge , Yuhao Wu , Daniel Wai Kit Chin , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Rui Cao