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The use of content features, particularly textual and linguistic for fake news detection is under-researched, despite empirical evidence showing the features could contribute to differentiating real and fake news. To this end, this study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vimala Balakrishnan , Lee Zing Hii , Eric Laporte

We present Verifi2, a visual analytic system to support the investigation of misinformation on social media. On the one hand, social media platforms empower individuals and organizations by democratizing the sharing of information. On the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alireza Karduni , Isaac Cho , Ryan Wesslen , Sashank Santhanam , Svitlana Volkova , Dustin Arendt , Samira Shaikh , Wenwen Dou

The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked renewed attention on the prevalence of misinformation online, whether intentional or not, underscoring the potential risks posed to individuals' quality of life associated with the dissemination of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-07 Emanuele Brugnoli , Marco Delmastro

Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony and affect society, especially when dealing with an epidemic like COVID-19. The task of Fake News Detection aims to tackle the effects of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mrinal Rawat , Diptesh Kanojia

The move of propaganda and disinformation to the online environment is possible thanks to the fact that within the last decade, digital information channels radically increased in popularity as a news source. The main advantage of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Aleš Horák , Vít Baisa , Ondřej Herman

Misinformation is an ever increasing problem that is difficult to solve for the research community and has a negative impact on the society at large. Very recently, the problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based approach to scale…

Fake news may be intentionally created to promote economic, political and social interests, and can lead to negative impacts on humans beliefs and decisions. Hence, detection of fake news is an emerging problem that has become extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gisel Bastidas Guacho , Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Health misinformation has been found to be prevalent on social media, particularly in new public health crises in which there is limited scientific information. However, social media can also play a role in limiting and refuting health…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Gillian Bolsover , Janet Tokitsu Tizon

The proliferation of false information in the digital age has become a pressing concern, necessitating the development of effective and robust detection methods. This paper offers a comprehensive review of existing false information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kun Xie , Sibo Wang

Fact-checking health-related claims has become increasingly critical as misinformation proliferates online. Effective verification requires both the retrieval of high-quality evidence and rigorous reasoning processes. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chih-Han Chen , Chen-Han Tsai , Yu-Shao Peng

In today's world, the presence of online disinformation and propaganda is more widespread than ever. Independent publishers are funded mostly via digital advertising, which is unfortunately also the case for those publishing disinformation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Zofia Trstanova , Nadir El Manouzi , Maryline Chen , Andre L. V. da Cunha , Sergei Ivanov

Understanding how misinformation affects the spread of disease is crucial for public health, especially given recent research indicating that misinformation can increase vaccine hesitancy and discourage vaccine uptake. However, it is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Matthew R. DeVerna , Francesco Pierri , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Santo Fortunato , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

Recent advancements in deep learning generative models have raised concerns as they can create highly convincing counterfeit images and videos. This poses a threat to people's integrity and can lead to social instability. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Leandro A. Passos , Danilo Jodas , Kelton A. P. da Costa , Luis A. Souza Júnior , Douglas Rodrigues , Javier Del Ser , David Camacho , João Paulo Papa

How can we best address the dangerous impact that deep learning-generated fake audios, photographs, and videos (a.k.a. deepfakes) may have in personal and societal life? We foresee that the availability of cheap deepfake technology will…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Claudio S. Pinhanez , German H. Flores , Marisa A. Vasconcelos , Mu Qiao , Nick Linck , Rogério de Paula , Yuya J. Ong

The increasing popularity of social media promotes the proliferation of fake news, which has caused significant negative societal effects. Therefore, fake news detection on social media has recently become an emerging research area of great…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Juan Cao , Peng Qi , Qiang Sheng , Tianyun Yang , Junbo Guo , Jintao Li

Amid a tidal wave of misinformation flooding social media during elections and crises, extensive research has been conducted on misinformation detection, primarily focusing on text-based or image-based approaches. However, only a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Gautam Kishore Shahi

Online attention is an increasingly valuable resource in the digital age, with extraordinary events such as the COVID-19 pandemic fuelling fierce competition around it. As misinformation pervades online platforms, users seek credible…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yueting Han , Paolo Turrini , Marya Bazzi , Giulia Andrighetto , Eugenia Polizzi , Manlio De Domenico

In the past decade, the social networks platforms and micro-blogging sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Weibo have become an integral part of our day-to-day activities and is widely used all over the world by billions of users…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Sakshini Hangloo , Bhavna Arora

As growing usage of social media websites in the recent decades, the amount of news articles spreading online rapidly, resulting in an unprecedented scale of potentially fraudulent information. Although a plenty of studies have applied the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hao Chen , Peng Zheng , Xin Wang , Shu Hu , Bin Zhu , Jinrong Hu , Xi Wu , Siwei Lyu

Users rely on search engines for information in critical contexts, such as public health emergencies. Understanding how users evaluate the trustworthiness of search results is therefore essential. Research has identified rank and the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sterling Williams-Ceci , Michael Macy , Mor Naaman