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Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

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In today's visually dominated social media landscape, predicting the perceived credibility of visual content and understanding what drives human judgment are crucial for countering misinformation. However, these tasks are challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yilang Peng , Sijia Qian , Yingdan Lu , Cuihua Shen

With the advent of social media, an increasing number of netizens are sharing and reading posts and news online. However, the huge volumes of misinformation (e.g., fake news and rumors) that flood the internet can adversely affect people's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zhiwei Liu , Tianlin Zhang , Kailai Yang , Paul Thompson , Zeping Yu , Sophia Ananiadou

Over the past couple of years, the topic of "fake news" and its influence over people's opinions has become a growing cause for concern. Although the spread of disinformation on the Internet is not a new phenomenon, the widespread use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jillian Tompkins

As growing usage of social media websites in the recent decades, the amount of news articles spreading online rapidly, resulting in an unprecedented scale of potentially fraudulent information. Although a plenty of studies have applied the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hao Chen , Peng Zheng , Xin Wang , Shu Hu , Bin Zhu , Jinrong Hu , Xi Wu , Siwei Lyu

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

Large-scale dissemination of disinformation online intended to mislead or deceive the general population is a major societal problem. Rapid progression in image, video, and natural language generative models has only exacerbated this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Reuben Tan , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko

The verification of multimedia content over social media is one of the challenging and crucial issues in the current scenario and gaining prominence in an age where user-generated content and online social web platforms are the leading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Deepika Varshney , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

The proliferation of misinformation on social media has raised significant societal concerns, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. Large Language Models such as GPT-4 and LLaMA2 have been envisioned as possible tools for detecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianyi Huang , Jingyuan Yi , Peiyang Yu , Xiaochuan Xu

The pervasiveness of the dissemination of fake news through social media platforms poses critical risks to the trust of the general public, societal stability, and democratic institutions. This challenge calls for novel methodologies in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingyuan Yi , Zeqiu Xu , Tianyi Huang , Peiyang Yu

With the increasing use of machine-learning driven algorithmic judgements, it is critical to develop models that are robust to evolving or manipulated inputs. We propose an extensive analysis of model robustness against linguistic variation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Maria Glenski , Ellyn Ayton , Robin Cosbey , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

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 widespread dissemination of multimodal content on social media has made misinformation detection increasingly challenging, as misleading narratives often arise not only from textual or visual content alone, but also from semantic…

The rise of social media has enabled the widespread propagation of fake news, text that is published with an intent to spread misinformation and sway beliefs. Rapidly detecting fake news, especially as new events arise, is important to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Nikhil Mehta , Dan Goldwasser

The spread of misinformation in social media outlets has become a prevalent societal problem and is the cause of many kinds of social unrest. Curtailing its prevalence is of great importance and machine learning has shown significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yueyang Liu , Zois Boukouvalas , Nathalie Japkowicz

As recent events have demonstrated, disinformation spread through social networks can have dire political, economic and social consequences. Detecting disinformation must inevitably rely on the structure of the network, on users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Marius Paraschiv , Nikos Salamanos , Costas Iordanou , Nikolaos Laoutaris , Michael Sirivianos

Disinformation on social media poses both societal and technical challenges, requiring robust detection systems. While previous studies have integrated textual information into propagation networks, they have yet to fully leverage the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Bruno Croso Cunha da Silva , Thomas Palmeira Ferraz , Roseli De Deus Lopes

Online disinformation poses an escalating threat to society, driven increasingly by the rapid spread of misleading content across both multimedia and multilingual platforms. While automated fact-checking methods have advanced in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Rafael Martins Frade , Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

The landscape of social media content has evolved significantly, extending from text to multimodal formats. This evolution presents a significant challenge in combating misinformation. Previous research has primarily focused on single…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhe Fu , Kanlun Wang , Wangjiaxuan Xin , Lina Zhou , Shi Chen , Yaorong Ge , Daniel Janies , Dongsong Zhang

The quality of digital information on the web has been disquieting due to the lack of careful manual review. Consequently, a large volume of false textual information has been disseminating for a long time since the prevalence of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qiang Zhang , Hongbin Huang , Shangsong Liang , Zaiqiao Meng , Emine Yilmaz