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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

The rapid spread of misinformation on social media, especially during crises, challenges public decision-making. To address this, we propose HierTKG, a framework combining Temporal Graph Networks (TGN) and hierarchical pooling (DiffPool) to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mariam Almutairi , Melike Yildiz Aktas , Nawar Wali , Shutonu Mitra , Dawei Zhou

Social media has been developing rapidly in public due to its nature of spreading new information, which leads to rumors being circulated. Meanwhile, detecting rumors from such massive information in social media is becoming an arduous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Tian Bian , Xi Xiao , Tingyang Xu , Peilin Zhao , Wenbing Huang , Yu Rong , Junzhou Huang

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

The prominent role of social media in people's daily lives has made them more inclined to receive news through social networks than traditional sources. This shift in public behavior has opened doors for some to diffuse fake news on social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Bita Azarijoo , Mostafa Salehi , Shaghayegh Najari

Nowadays, Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been playing a pivotal role in AI-related applications. Despite the large sizes, existing KGs are far from complete and comprehensive. In order to continuously enrich KGs, automatic knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Zhao Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Hengshu Zhu , Chao Li , Hui Xiong , Qing He , Yongjun Xu

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 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

Social media platforms generate vast, complex graph-structured data, facilitating diverse tasks such as rumor detection, bot identification, and influence modeling. Real-world applications like public opinion monitoring and stock trading --…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Jiang , Tong Chen , Wei Yuan , Xiangyu Zhao , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

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

With the rapid development of mobile Internet technology and the widespread use of mobile devices, it becomes much easier for people to express their opinions on social media. The openness and convenience of social media platforms provide a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Qi Huang , Junshuai Yu , Jia Wu , Bin Wang

The rapid spread of misinformation, further amplified by recent advances in generative AI, poses significant threats to society, impacting public opinion, democratic stability, and national security. Understanding and proactively assessing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sania Nayab , Marco Simoni , Giulio Rossolini

Due to the rapid spread of rumors on social media, rumor detection has become an extremely important challenge. Existing methods for rumor detection have achieved good performance, as they have collected enough corpus from the same data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiang Tao , Mingqing Zhang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

The spread of fake news on social media poses a serious threat to public trust and societal stability. While propagation-based methods improve fake news detection by modeling how information spreads, they often suffer from incomplete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Mengyang Chen , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Deep learning techniques for rumor detection typically utilize Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to analyze post relations. These methods, however, falter due to over-smoothing issues when processing rumor propagation structures, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

Since open social platforms allow for a large and continuous flow of unverified information, rumors can emerge unexpectedly and spread quickly. However, existing rumor detection (RD) models often assume the same training and testing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Yuhui Zuo , Wei Zhu , Guoyong Cai

To manage the rumors in social media to reduce the harm of rumors in society. Many studies used methods of deep learning to detect rumors in open networks. To comprehensively sort out the research status of rumor detection from multiple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Li Tan , Ge Wang , Feiyang Jia , Xiaofeng Lian

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

With the development of social media, rumors spread quickly, cause great harm to society and economy. Thereby, many effective rumor detection methods have been developed, among which the rumor propagation structure learning based methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

Despite advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, their effectiveness is often hindered by a lack of integration with entity relationships and community structures, limiting their ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Rong-Ching Chang , Jiawei Zhang