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Online Social Media (OSM) platforms such as Twitter, Facebook are extensively exploited by the users of these platforms for spreading the (mis)information to a large audience effortlessly at a rapid pace. It has been observed that the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Shakshi Sharma , Rajesh Sharma

The rapid spread of information and rumors through social media platforms, especially in group settings, motivates the need for more sophisticated models of rumor propagation. Traditional pairwise models do not account for group…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-29 Kleber A. Oliveira , Pietro Traversa , Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Yamir Moreno

With the development of social media, social communication has changed. While this facilitates people's communication and access to information, it also provides an ideal platform for spreading rumors. In normal or critical situations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

The rapid growth of social media has caused tremendous effects on information propagation, raising extreme challenges in detecting rumors. Existing rumor detection methods typically exploit the reposting propagation of a rumor candidate for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Qi Zhang , Yayi Yang , Chongyang Shi , An Lao , Liang Hu , Shoujin Wang , Usman Naseem

The truth is significantly hampered by massive rumors that spread along with breaking news or popular topics. Since there is sufficient corpus gathered from the same domain for model training, existing rumor detection algorithms show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Ruichao Yang , Zhiwei Yang , Mingfei Cheng

Automatic detecting rumors on social media has become a challenging task. Previous studies focus on learning indicative clues from conversation threads for identifying rumorous information. However, these methods only model rumorous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yang Wu , Jing Yang , Xiaojun Zhou , Liming Wang , Zhen Xu

The spread of rumors, which are known as unverified statements of uncertain origin, may cause tremendous number of social problems. If it would be possible to identify factors affecting spreading a rumor (such as agents' desires, trust…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Masoud Amoozgar , Rasoul Ramezanian

As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates. The use of social media in such situations comes with the caveat that new information being released piecemeal may encourage rumours,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi , Peter Tolmie

Accurate and efficient rumor detection is critical for information governance, particularly in the context of the rapid spread of misinformation on social networks. Traditional rumor detection relied primarily on manual analysis. With the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yanqin Yan , Suiyu Zhang , Dingguo Yu , Yijie Zhou , Cheng-Jun Wang , Ke-ke Shang

With the development of social media, rumors have been spread broadly on social media platforms, causing great harm to society. Beside textual information, many rumors also use manipulated images or conceal textual information within images…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Lin Bai , Caiyan Jia , Ziying Song , Chaoqun Cui

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

Recent work have done a good job in modeling rumors and detecting them over microblog streams. However, the performance of their automatic approaches are not relatively high when looking early in the diffusion. A first intuition is that, at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tu Nguyen

In this work, we investigate to use Large Language Models (LLMs) for rumor detection on social media. However, it is challenging for LLMs to reason over the entire propagation information on social media, which contains news contents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Qiang Liu , Xiang Tao , Junfei Wu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Due to the rapid spread of rumors on social media, rumor detection has become an extremely important challenge. Recently, numerous rumor detection models which utilize textual information and the propagation structure of events have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xiang Tao , Liang Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Social media resurgence of antisocial behavior has exerted a downward spiral on stereotypical beliefs, and hateful comments towards individuals and social groups, as well as false or distorted news. The advances in graph neural networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Martina Toshevska , Slobodan Kalajdziski , Sonja Gievska

Although significant effort has been applied to fact-checking, the prevalence of fake news over social media, which has profound impact on justice, public trust and our society, remains a serious problem. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Yi Han , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

The widespread adoption of online social networks in daily life has created a pressing need for effectively classifying user-generated content. This work presents techniques for classifying linked content spread on forum websites --…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Di Huang , Jacob Bartel , John Palowitch

Fake news on social media is increasingly regarded as one of the most concerning issues. Low cost, simple accessibility via social platforms, and a plethora of low-budget online news sources are some of the factors that contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Fahim Belal Mahmud , Mahi Md. Sadek Rayhan , Mahdi Hasan Shuvo , Islam Sadia , Md. Kishor Morol

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

Graphs are now ubiquitous in almost every field of research. Recently, new research areas devoted to the analysis of graphs and data associated to their vertices have emerged. Focusing on dynamical processes, we propose a fast, robust and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Kirell Benzi , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst