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The proliferation of fake news on social media platforms disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations, eroding trust, exacerbating inequality, and amplifying harmful narratives. Detecting fake news in multimodal contexts -- where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yifan Liu , Yaokun Liu , Zelin Li , Ruichen Yao , Yang Zhang , Dong Wang

Effective detection of fake news has recently attracted significant attention. Current studies have made significant contributions to predicting fake news with less focus on exploiting the relationship (similarity) between the textual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Xinyi Zhou , Jindi Wu , Reza Zafarani

Fake news detection becomes particularly challenging in real-time scenarios, where emerging events often lack sufficient supporting evidence. Existing approaches often rely heavily on external evidence and therefore struggle to generalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Guangyu Wei , Ke Han , Yueming Lyu , Yu Luo , Yue Jiang , Caifeng Shan , Nicu Sebe

Misinformation such as fake news is one of the big challenges of our society. Research on automated fact-checking has proposed methods based on supervised learning, but these approaches do not consider external evidence apart from labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Kashyap Popat , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

Multimodal fake news detection is crucial for mitigating adversarial misinformation. Existing methods, relying on static fusion or LLMs, face computational redundancy and hallucination risks due to weak visual foundations. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Weilin Zhou , Zonghao Ying , Chunlei Meng , Jiahui Liu , Hengyang Zhou , Quanchen Zou , Deyue Zhang , Dongdong Yang , Xiangzheng Zhang

Social media has greatly enabled people to participate in online activities at an unprecedented rate. However, this unrestricted access also exacerbates the spread of misinformation and fake news online which might cause confusion and chaos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kai Shu , Guoqing Zheng , Yichuan Li , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Scott Ruston , Huan Liu

The proliferation of multi-modal fake news on social media poses a significant threat to public trust and social stability. Traditional detection methods, primarily text-based, often fall short due to the deceptive interplay between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Junhao He , Tianyu Liu , Jingyuan Zhao , Benjamin Turner

News media, particularly video-based platforms, have become deeply embed-ded in daily life, concurrently amplifying the risks of misinformation dissem-ination. Consequently, multimodal fake news detection has garnered signifi-cant research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yihao Wang , Zhong Qian , Peifeng Li

Recent years have witnessed the significant damage caused by various types of fake news. Although considerable effort has been applied to address this issue and much progress has been made on detecting fake news, most existing approaches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yi Han , Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

The wide spread of fake news is increasingly threatening both individuals and society. Great efforts have been made for automatic fake news detection on a single domain (e.g., politics). However, correlations exist commonly across multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yongchun Zhu , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Qiong Nan , Kai Shu , Minghui Wu , Jindong Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang

In recent years, the rampant spread of misinformation on social media has made accurate detection of multimodal fake news a critical research focus. However, previous research has not adequately understood the semantics of images, and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peican Zhu , Yubo Jing , Le Cheng , Keke Tang , Yangming Guo

Fake news often involves multimedia information such as text and image to mislead readers, proliferating and expanding its influence. Most existing fake news detection methods apply the co-attention mechanism to fuse multimodal features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Linmei Hu , Ziwang Zhao , Weijian Qi , Xuemeng Song , Liqiang Nie

Multimodal Misinformation Recognition has become an urgent task with the emergence of huge multimodal fake content on social media platforms. Previous studies mainly focus on complex feature extraction and fusion to learn discriminative…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hengyang Zhou , Yiwei Wei , Jian Yang , Zhenyu Zhang

In recent years, detecting fake multimodal content on social media has drawn increasing attention. Two major forms of deception dominate: human-crafted misinformation (e.g., rumors and misleading posts) and AI-generated content produced by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Haiyang Li , Yaxiong Wang , Shengeng Tang , Lianwei Wu , Lechao Cheng , Zhun Zhong

Easier access to the internet and social media has made disseminating information through online sources very easy. Sources like Facebook, Twitter, online news sites and personal blogs of self-proclaimed journalists have become significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shaily Bhatt , Sakshi Kalra , Naman Goenka , Yashvardhan Sharma

The widespread dissemination of false information through manipulative tactics that combine deceptive text and images threatens the integrity of reliable sources of information. While there has been research on detecting fake news in high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shubhi Bansal , Nishit Sushil Singh , Shahid Shafi Dar , Nagendra Kumar

The standard paradigm for fake news detection mainly utilizes text information to model the truthfulness of news. However, the discourse of online fake news is typically subtle and it requires expert knowledge to use textual information to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ye Jiang , Xiaomin Yu , Yimin Wang , Xiaoman Xu , Xingyi Song , Diana Maynard

Massive dissemination of fake news and its potential to erode democracy has increased the demand for accurate fake news detection. Recent advancements in this area have proposed novel techniques that aim to detect fake news by exploring how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Xinyi Zhou , Atishay Jain , Vir V. Phoha , Reza Zafarani

Fake news can significantly misinform people who often rely on online sources and social media for their information. Current research on fake news detection has mostly focused on analyzing fake news content and how it propagates on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Niraj Sitaula , Chilukuri K. Mohan , Jennifer Grygiel , Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

Fake News Detection (FND) is an essential field in natural language processing that aims to identify and check the truthfulness of major claims in a news article to decide the news veracity. FND finds its uses in preventing social,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Prabhav Singh , Ridam Srivastava , K. P. S. Rana , Vineet Kumar