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The past decade has seen a substantial rise in the amount of mis- and disinformation online, from targeted disinformation campaigns to influence politics, to the unintentional spreading of misinformation about public health. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Isabelle Augenstein

Fake news on social media platforms poses a significant threat to societal systems, underscoring the urgent need for advanced detection methods. The existing detection methods can be divided into machine intelligence-based, crowd…

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Wiki articles are created and maintained by a crowd of editors, producing a continuous stream of reviews. Reviews can take the form of additions, reverts, or both. This crowdsourcing model is exposed to manipulation since neither reviews…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Silvia García Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo Rial

Rumours have existed for a long time and have been known for serious consequences. The rapid growth of social media platforms has multiplied the negative impact of rumours; it thus becomes important to early detect them. Many methods have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Tien Huu Do , Xiao Luo , Duc Minh Nguyen , Nikos Deligiannis

With social media being a major force in information consumption, accelerated propagation of fake news has presented new challenges for platforms to distinguish between legitimate and fake news. Effective fake news detection is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Mansooreh Karami , Kai Shu , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

Fake news detection is an important task for increasing the credibility of information on the media since fake news is constantly spreading on social media every day and it is a very serious concern in our society. Fake news is usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Nguyen Manh Duc Tuan , Pham Quang Nhat Minh

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

Nowadays, People prefer to follow the latest news on social media, as it is cheap, easily accessible, and quickly disseminated. However, it can spread fake or unreliable, low-quality news that intentionally contains false information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zainab A. Jawad , Ahmed J. Obaid

The dissemination of fake news intended to deceive people, influence public opinion and manipulate social outcomes, has become a pressing problem on social media. Moreover, information sharing on social media facilitates diffusion of viral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Karishma Sharma , Xinran He , Sungyong Seo , Yan Liu

Social media serves as a primary source of information in the current digital era. Many people consume a vast range of information in a very short span, yet, amidst the stream of genuine information, fake news and rumors continue to spread.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sai Keerthana Karnam , Abhirup Kundu , Jashn Arora , Manish Jain , Animesh Mukherjee

In recent years, fake news detection has received increasing attention in public debate and scientific research. Despite advances in detection techniques, the production and spread of false information have become more sophisticated, driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pietro Dell'Oglio , Alessandro Bondielli , Francesco Marcelloni , Lucia C. Passaro

Nowadays social media is the primary platform for people to obtain news and share information. Combating online fake news has become an urgent task to reduce the damage it causes to society. Existing methods typically improve their fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xing Su , Jian Yang , Jia Wu , Zitai Qiu

The increased use of online social networks for the dissemination of information comes with the misuse of the internet for cyberbullying, cybercrime, spam, vandalism, amongst other things. To proactively identify abuse in the networks, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Abiola Osho , Ethan Tucker , George Amariucai

Recent years have seen an explosion in social media usage, allowing people to connect with others. Since the appearance of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, such platforms influence how we speak, think, and behave. This problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Taminul Islam , MD Alamin Hosen , Akhi Mony , MD Touhid Hasan , Israt Jahan , Arindom Kundu

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

Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social media, producing all kinds of updates related to news stories, albeit with the caveat that some of those early updates tend to be rumours, i.e., information with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter

As online news has become increasingly popular and fake news increasingly prevalent, the ability to audit the veracity of online news content has become more important than ever. Such a task represents a binary classification challenge, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ciara Blackledge , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

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

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

With the rise in popularity of public social media and micro-blogging services, most notably Twitter, the people have found a venue to hear and be heard by their peers without an intermediary. As a consequence, and aided by the public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Prashanth Vijayaraghavan , Soroush Vosoughi , Deb Roy