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With technologies that have democratized the production and reproduction of information, a significant portion of daily interacted posts in social media has been infected by rumors. Despite the extensive research on rumor detection and…

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

In recent years, the reliability of information on the Internet has emerged as a crucial issue of modern society. Social network sites (SNSs) have revolutionized the way in which information is spread by allowing users to freely share…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Eugenio Tacchini , Gabriele Ballarin , Marco L. Della Vedova , Stefano Moret , Luca de Alfaro

Detecting false information on social media is critical in mitigating its negative societal impacts. To reduce the propagation of false information, automated detection provide scalable, unbiased, and cost-effective methods. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Sarah Condran

On the one hand, nowadays, fake news articles are easily propagated through various online media platforms and have become a grand threat to the trustworthiness of information. On the other hand, our understanding of the language of fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hamid Karimi , Jiliang Tang

Recent years have seen various rumor diffusion models being assumed in detection of rumor source research of the online social network. Diffusion model is arguably considered as a very important and challengeable factor for source detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rong Jin , Weili Wu

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 explosive growth of rumors with text and images on social media platforms has drawn great attention. Existing studies have made significant contributions to cross-modal information interaction and fusion, but they fail to fully explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jiawei Liu , Jingyi Xie , Fanrui Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Zheng-jun Zha

The development of social media has revolutionized the way people communicate, share information and make decisions, but it also provides an ideal platform for publishing and spreading rumors. Existing rumor detection methods focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Chunyuan Yuan , Qianwen Ma , Wei Zhou , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

Detecting rumors on social media is a very critical task with significant implications to the economy, public health, etc. Previous works generally capture effective features from texts and the propagation structure. However, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Lingwei Wei , Dou Hu , Wei Zhou , Zhaojuan Yue , Songlin Hu

In recent years, we witness the explosion of false and unconfirmed information (i.e., rumors) that went viral on social media and shocked the public. Rumors can trigger versatile, mostly controversial stance expressions among social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ruichao Yang , Wei Gao , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Zhiwei Yang

With the current shift in the mass media landscape from journalistic rigor to social media, personalized social media is becoming the new norm. Although the digitalization progress of the media brings many advantages, it also increases the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

From disinformation spread by AI chatbots to AI recommendations that inadvertently reinforce stereotypes, textual bias poses a significant challenge to the trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianyi Huang , Elsa Fan

Current rumor detection methods based on propagation structure learning predominately treat rumor detection as a class-balanced classification task on limited labeled data. However, real-world social media data exhibits an imbalanced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

The growth in social media has exacerbated the threat of fake news to individuals and communities. This draws increasing attention to developing efficient and timely rumor detection methods. The prevailing approaches resort to graph neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Kaiwei Zhang , Junchi Yu , Haichao Shi , Jian Liang , Xiao-Yu Zhang

The sharing of fake news and conspiracy theories on social media has wide-spread negative effects. By designing and applying different machine learning models, researchers have made progress in detecting fake news from text. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Haoming Guo , Tianyi Huang , Huixuan Huang , Mingyue Fan , Gerald Friedland

Given the constantly growing proliferation of false claims online in recent years, there has been also a growing research interest in automatically distinguishing false rumors from factually true claims. Here, we propose a general-purpose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Georgi Karadzhov , Preslav Nakov , Lluis Marquez , Alberto Barron-Cedeno , Ivan Koychev

False news has received attention from both the general public and the scholarly world. Such false information has the ability to affect public perception, giving nefarious groups the chance to influence the results of public events like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Biplob Kumar Sutradhar , Md. Zonaid , Nushrat Jahan Ria , Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

The propagation of a rumor (unverified information) on a social network is subject to several factors mainly related to the content of this information and especially to the behaviors (profiles) of the actors on this network that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Chahinez Ounoughi

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