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With social media becoming ubiquitous, information consumption from this media has also increased. However, one of the serious problems that have emerged with this increase, is the propagation of rumors. Therefore, rumor identification is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Mingxuan Chen , Ning Wang , K. P. Subbalakshmi

Rumors are rampant in the era of social media. Conversation structures provide valuable clues to differentiate between real and fake claims. However, existing rumor detection methods are either limited to the strict relation of user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Mingfei Cheng , Zhiwei Yang , Liangliang Chen , Guang Chen

With the development of network technology, many social media are flourishing. Due to imperfect Internet regulation, the spread of false rumors has become a common problem on those social platforms. Social platforms can generate rumor data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Huidong Wang , Chuanzheng Bai , Jinli Yao

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

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

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have emerged as invaluable resources for enriching recommendation systems by providing a wealth of factual information and capturing semantic relationships among items. Leveraging KGs can significantly enhance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yangqin Jiang , Yuhao Yang , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

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

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a powerful representation of linked data, offering flexibility, semantic richness, and support for knowledge enrichment and reasoning. They help data owners organize and exploit heterogeneous data to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yasmine Hayder

The spread of online misinformation threatens public health, democracy, and the broader society. While professional fact-checkers form the first line of defense by fact-checking popular false claims, they do not engage directly in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Bing He , Mustaque Ahamad , Srijan Kumar

Fake news generally refers to false information that is spread deliberately to deceive people, which has detrimental social effects. Existing fake news detection methods primarily learn the semantic features from news content or integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengyang Chen , Lingwei Wei , Han Cao , Wei Zhou , Zhou Yan , Songlin Hu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances language models by grounding responses in external information, yet explainability remains a critical challenge, particularly when retrieval relies on unstructured text. Knowledge graphs (KGs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Georgios Balanos , Evangelos Chasanis , Konstantinos Skianis , Evaggelia Pitoura

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

The spread of fake news has long been a social issue and the necessity of identifying it has become evident since its dangers are well recognized. In addition to causing uneasiness among the public, it has even more devastating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxuan Tian

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 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

Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the Covid-19 pandemic are proliferating given the lack of any authoritative scientific consensus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Shadi Shahsavari , Pavan Holur , Timothy R. Tangherlini , Vwani Roychowdhury

The state-of-the-art semantic communication (SC) schemes typically rely on end-to-end deep learning frameworks that lack interpretability and struggle with robust semantic selection and reconstruction under noisy conditions. To address this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Dayu Fan , Rui Meng , Song Gao , Xiaodong Xu

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 rapid adoption of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems has revolutionized large-scale content generation but has also highlighted the challenge of ensuring trustworthiness in retrieved information. This paper introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hangkai Qian , Bo Li , Qichen Wang

Social media becomes the central way for people to obtain and utilise news, due to its rapidness and inexpensive value of data distribution. Though, such features of social media platforms also present it a root cause of fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Priyanka Meel , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma