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We study a rumor spreading model where individuals are connected via a network structure. Initially, only a small subset of the individuals are spreading a rumor. Each individual who is connected to a spreader, starts spreading the rumor…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ahad N. Zehmakan , Charlotte Out , Sajjad Hesamipour Khelejan

Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and news gathering, its unmoderated nature often leads to the emergence and spread of rumours, i.e. pieces of information that are unverified at the time of posting. At…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Ahmet Aker , Kalina Bontcheva , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

The spread of rumors along with breaking events seriously hinders the truth in the era of social media. Previous studies reveal that due to the lack of annotated resources, rumors presented in minority languages are hard to be detected.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongzhan Lin , Pengyao Yi , Jing Ma , Haiyun Jiang , Ziyang Luo , Shuming Shi , Ruifang Liu

The spread of rumors through social media and online social networks can not only disrupt the daily lives of citizens but also result in loss of life and property. A rumor spreads when individuals, who are unable decide the authenticity of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-29 Bhushan Kotnis , Joy Kuri

In recent years people have become increasingly reliant on social media to read news and get information, and some social media users post unsubstantiated information to gain attention. Such information is known as rumours. Nowadays, rumour…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yaohou Fan

With the growing popularity and ease of access to the internet, the problem of online rumors is escalating. People are relying on social media to gain information readily but fall prey to false information. There is a lack of credibility…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Chahat Raj , Priyanka Meel

The proliferation of social media in communication and information dissemination has made it an ideal platform for spreading rumors. Automatically debunking rumors at their stage of diffusion is known as \textit{early rumor detection},…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Tong Chen , Lin Wu , Xue Li , Jun Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Yang Wang

The popularity of online social networks has enabled rapid dissemination of information. People now can share and consume information much more rapidly than ever before. However, low-quality and/or accidentally/deliberately fake information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

Recently a lot of progress has been made in rumor modeling and rumor detection for micro-blogging streams. However, existing automated methods do not perform very well for early rumor detection, which is crucial in many settings, e.g., in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tu Nguyen , Cheng Li , Claudia Niederée

The prevalence of social media has made information sharing possible across the globe. The downside, unfortunately, is the wide spread of misinformation. Methods applied in most previous rumor classifiers give an equal weight, or attention,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Sansiri Tarnpradab , Kien A. Hua

Today's social networks continuously generate massive streams of data, which provide a valuable starting point for the detection of rumours as soon as they start to propagate. However, rumour detection faces tight latency bounds, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Trung Huynh , Hongzhi Yin , Matthias Weidlich , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Thai Son Mai , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

The rapid proliferation of rumors on social networks poses a significant threat to information integrity. While rumor dissemination forms complex structural patterns, existing detection methods often fail to capture the intricate interplay…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jiran Tao , Cheng Wang , Binyan Jiang

Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and fake news. Many efforts have been taken to detect and debunk…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Quanzhi Li , Qiong Zhang , Luo Si , Yingchi Liu

Social networks are frequently polluted by rumors, which can be detected by advanced models such as graph neural networks. However, the models are vulnerable to attacks and understanding the vulnerabilities is critical to rumor detection in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yuefei Lyu , Xiaoyu Yang , Jiaxin Liu , Philip S. Yu , Sihong Xie , Xi Zhang

Over the past few years, there has been a substantial effort towards automated detection of fake news on social media platforms. Existing research has modeled the structure, style, content, and patterns in dissemination of online posts, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Shantanu Chandra , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Madhav Nimishakavi , Marzieh Saeidi , Ekaterina Shutova

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

Rumor detection has become an emerging and active research field in recent years. At the core is to model the rumor characteristics inherent in rich information, such as propagation patterns in social network and semantic patterns in post…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yuan Gao , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Huamin Feng , Yongdong Zhang

The spread of rumors on social media, particularly during significant events like the US elections and the COVID-19 pandemic, poses a serious threat to social stability and public health. Current rumor detection methods primarily rely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yusong Zhang , Kun Xie , Xingyi Zhang , Xiangyu Dong , Sibo Wang

We consider the problem of detecting the source of a rumor which has spread in a network using only observations about which set of nodes are infected with the rumor and with no information as to \emph{when} these nodes became infected. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Devavrat Shah , Tauhid Zaman

The rapid spread of rumors on social media has posed significant challenges to maintaining public trust and information integrity. Since an information cascade process is essentially a propagation tree, recent rumor detection models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Wei Jiang , Tong Chen , Xinyi Gao , Wentao Zhang , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin