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The rapid spread of misinformation on online platforms undermines trust among individuals and hinders informed decision making. This paper shows an explainable and computationally efficient pipeline to detect misinformation using…

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To reliably assist human decision-making, LLMs must maintain factual internal beliefs against misleading injections. While current models resist explicit misinformation, we uncover a fundamental vulnerability to sophisticated,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Herun Wan , Jiaying Wu , Minnan Luo , Fanxiao Li , Zhi Zeng , Min-Yen Kan

With their advanced capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly convincing and contextually relevant fake news, which can contribute to disseminating misinformation. Though there is much research on fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rupak Kumar Das , Jonathan Dodge

The widespread dissemination of fake news on social media has significantly impacted society, resulting in serious consequences. Conventional deep learning methodologies employing small language models (SLMs) suffer from extensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ziyi Zhou , Xiaoming Zhang , Litian Zhang , Yibo Zhang , Zhenyu Guan , Chaozhuo Li , Philip S. Yu

Social media influence campaigns pose significant challenges to public discourse and democracy. Traditional detection methods fall short due to the complexity and dynamic nature of social media. Addressing this, we propose a novel detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Luca Luceri , Eric Boniardi , Emilio Ferrara

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has marked a significant breakthrough in natural language processing (NLP), fueling a paradigm shift in information acquisition. Nevertheless, LLMs are prone to hallucination, generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lei Huang , Weijiang Yu , Weitao Ma , Weihong Zhong , Zhangyin Feng , Haotian Wang , Qianglong Chen , Weihua Peng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

In our era of widespread false information, human fact-checkers often face the challenge of duplicating efforts when verifying claims that may have already been addressed in other countries or languages. As false information transcends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ivan Vykopal , Matúš Pikuliak , Simon Ostermann , Tatiana Anikina , Michal Gregor , Marián Šimko

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in reasoning, positioning them as promising tools for supporting human problem-solving. However, what happens when their performance is affected by misinformation, i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yiyang Feng , Yichen Wang , Shaobo Cui , Boi Faltings , Mina Lee , Jiawei Zhou

Nowadays, misinformation articles, especially multimodal ones, are widely spread on social media platforms and cause serious negative effects. To control their propagation, Multimodal Misinformation Detection (MMD) becomes an active topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Mengzhe Ye , Changchun Li , Bo Fu , Jianfeng Qu , Lin Yuanbo Wu

The impact of multimodal misinformation arises not only from factual inaccuracies but also from the misleading narratives that creators deliberately embed. Interpreting such creator intent is therefore essential for multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiaying Wu , Fanxiao Li , Zihang Fu , Min-Yen Kan , Bryan Hooi

Recent work has made a preliminary attempt to use large language models (LLMs) to solve the stance detection task, showing promising results. However, considering that stance detection usually requires detailed background knowledge, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Xiaolong Wang , Yile Wang , Sijie Cheng , Peng Li , Yang Liu

DeepFakes, which refer to AI-generated media content, have become an increasing concern due to their use as a means for disinformation. Detecting DeepFakes is currently solved with programmed machine learning algorithms. In this work, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shan Jia , Reilin Lyu , Kangran Zhao , Yize Chen , Zhiyuan Yan , Yan Ju , Chuanbo Hu , Xin Li , Baoyuan Wu , Siwei Lyu

The rapid growth of social media has resulted in an explosion of online news content, leading to a significant increase in the spread of misleading or false information. While machine learning techniques have been widely applied to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hao Chen , Hui Guo , Baochen Hu , Shu Hu , Jinrong Hu , Siwei Lyu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

Recent research on large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated their ability to understand and employ deceptive behavior, even without explicit prompting. However, such behavior has only been observed in rare, specialized cases and has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Laurène Vaugrante , Francesca Carlon , Maluna Menke , Thilo Hagendorff

Many recent news reports have claimed that content generated by large language models (LLMs) is taking over the web. However, these claims are typically not based on a representative sample of the web and the methodology underlying them is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Sichang Steven He , Calvin Ardi , Ramesh Govindan , Harsha V. Madhyastha

The paper considers the possibility of fine-tuning Llama 2 large language model (LLM) for the disinformation analysis and fake news detection. For fine-tuning, the PEFT/LoRA based approach was used. In the study, the model was fine-tuned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Bohdan M. Pavlyshenko

Generative AI and misinformation research has evolved since our 2024 survey. This paper presents an updated perspective, transitioning from literature review to practical countermeasures. We report on changes in the threat landscape,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Alexander Loth , Martin Kappes , Marc-Oliver Pahl

In recent years, the rapid evolution of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has driven a paradigm shift in multimodal fake news detection (MFND), transforming it from traditional feature-engineering approaches to unified, end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Wei Ai , Yilong Tan , Yuntao Shou , Tao Meng , Haowen Chen , Zhixiong He , Keqin Li

The emergence of social media has made the spread of misinformation easier. In the financial domain, the accuracy of information is crucial for various aspects of financial market, which has made financial misinformation detection (FMD) an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Zhiwei Liu , Xin Zhang , Kailai Yang , Qianqian Xie , Jimin Huang , Sophia Ananiadou

The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) across critical domains has amplified the societal risks posed by algorithmically generated misinformation. Unlike traditional false content, LLM-generated misinformation can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shuliang Liu , Hongyi Liu , Aiwei Liu , Bingchen Duan , Qi Zheng , Yibo Yan , He Geng , Peijie Jiang , Jia Liu , Xuming Hu