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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Dexun Li , Meghna Lowalekar , Pradeep Varakantham

Fake News Detection is an essential problem in the field of Natural Language Processing. The benefits of an effective solution in this area are manifold for the goodwill of society. On a surface level, it broadly matches with the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lovedeep Singh

Evidence-aware fake news detection aims to conduct reasoning between news and evidence, which is retrieved based on news content, to find uniformity or inconsistency. However, we find evidence-aware detection models suffer from biases,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Qiang Liu , Junfei Wu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

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

With the development of social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and gotten widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, people can get infected by the fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Yang Yang , Lei Zheng , Jiawei Zhang , Qingcai Cui , Zhoujun Li , Philip S. Yu

Recent advances in neural networks for content generation enable artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate high-quality media manipulations. Here we report on a randomized experiment designed to study the effect of exposure to media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Matthew Groh , Ziv Epstein , Nick Obradovich , Manuel Cebrian , Iyad Rahwan

Individual and social biases undermine the effectiveness of human advisers by inducing judgment errors which can disadvantage protected groups. In this paper, we study the influence these biases can have in the pervasive problem of fake…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Axel Abels , Elias Fernandez Domingos , Ann Nowé , Tom Lenaerts

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

With the widespread use of the internet and handheld devices, social media now holds a power similar to that of old newspapers. People use social media platforms for quick and accessible information. However, this convenience comes with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Maria-Diana Cotelin , Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

Due to various and serious adverse impacts of spreading fake news, it is often known that only people with malicious intent would propagate fake news. However, it is not necessarily true based on social science studies. Distinguishing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zhen Guo , Qi Zhang , Xinwei An , Qisheng Zhang , Audun Jøsang , Lance M. Kaplan , Feng Chen , Dong H. Jeong , Jin-Hee Cho

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for fake news detection. However, state-of-the-art approaches are usually trained on datasets of smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Sahar Tahmasebi , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth , Eric Müller-Budack

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

Social media platforms have become one of the main channels where people disseminate and acquire information, of which the reliability is severely threatened by rumors widespread in the network. Existing approaches such as suspending users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Hongyuan Su , Yu Zheng , Jingtao Ding , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

The availability and interactive nature of social media have made them the primary source of news around the globe. The popularity of social media tempts criminals to pursue their immoral intentions by producing and disseminating fake news…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-29 Faeze Ghorbanpour , Maryam Ramezani , Mohammad A. Fazli , Hamid R. Rabiee

With the rise of social media, the spread of fake news has become a significant concern, potentially misleading public perceptions and impacting social stability. Although deep learning methods like CNNs, RNNs, and Transformer-based models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shu Yin , Chao Gao , Zhen Wang

The spread of fake news has caused great harm to society in recent years. So the quick detection of fake news has become an important task. Some current detection methods often model news articles and other related components as a static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Jin Ho Go , Alina Sari , Jiaojiao Jiang , Shuiqiao Yang , Sanjay Jha

Fake news detection is a very prominent and essential task in the field of journalism. This challenging problem is seen so far in the field of politics, but it could be even more challenging when it is to be determined in the multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Tanik Saikh , Arkadipta De , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

The malicious use and widespread dissemination of deepfake pose a significant crisis of trust. Current deepfake detection models can generally recognize forgery images by training on a large dataset. However, the accuracy of detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Kun Pan , Yin Yifang , Yao Wei , Feng Lin , Zhongjie Ba , Zhenguang Liu , ZhiBo Wang , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Kui Ren

The rise of social networks as the primary means of communication in almost every country in the world has simultaneously triggered an increase in the amount of fake news circulating online. This fact became particularly evident during the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-04 Jonathan Franceschi , Lorenzo Pareschi