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Misinformation is often conveyed in multiple modalities, e.g. a miscaptioned image. Multimodal misinformation is perceived as more credible by humans, and spreads faster than its text-only counterparts. While an increasing body of research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Mubashara Akhtar , Michael Schlichtkrull , Zhijiang Guo , Oana Cocarascu , Elena Simperl , Andreas Vlachos

Over the last years, there has been an unprecedented proliferation of fake news. As a consequence, we are more susceptible to the pernicious impact that misinformation and disinformation spreading can have in different segments of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Santiago Alonso-Bartolome , Isabel Segura-Bedmar

The rapid spread of misinformation in mobile and wireless networks presents critical security challenges. This study introduces a training-free, retrieval-based multimodal fact verification system that leverages pretrained vision-language…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Van-Hoang Phan , Long-Khanh Pham , Dang Vu , Anh-Duy Tran , Minh-Son Dao

Multimodal misinformation floods on various social media, and continues to evolve in the era of AI-generated content (AIGC). The emerged misinformation with low creation cost and high deception poses significant threats to society. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junjie Wu , Guohong Fu

The pervasiveness of the dissemination of fake news through social media platforms poses critical risks to the trust of the general public, societal stability, and democratic institutions. This challenge calls for novel methodologies in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingyuan Yi , Zeqiu Xu , Tianyi Huang , Peiyang Yu

Multimodal news contains a wealth of information and is easily affected by deepfake modeling attacks. To combat the latest image and text generation methods, we present a new Multimodal Fake News Detection dataset (MFND) containing 11…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ye Zhu , Yunan Wang , Zitong Yu

Detecting multimodal misinformation on social media remains challenging due to inconsistencies between modalities, changes in temporal patterns, and substantial class imbalance. Many existing methods treat posts independently and fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Ahmad Mousavi , Yeganeh Abdollahinejad , Roberto Corizzo , Nathalie Japkowicz , Zois Boukouvalas

Preventing the spread of misinformation is challenging. The detection of misleading content presents a significant hurdle due to its extreme linguistic and domain variability. Content-based models have managed to identify deceptive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Flavio Merenda , José Manuel Gómez-Pérez

Multimodal fake news detection has garnered significant attention due to its profound implications for social security. While existing approaches have contributed to understanding cross-modal consistency, they often fail to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tianlin Zhang , En Yu , Yi Shao , Jiande Sun

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

Multimodal misinformation, encompassing textual, visual, and cross-modal distortions, poses an increasing societal threat that is amplified by generative AI. Existing methods typically focus on a single type of distortion and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zehong Yan , Peng Qi , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Social media content routinely incorporates multi-modal design to covey information and shape meanings, and sway interpretations toward desirable implications, but the choices and outcomes of using both texts and visual images have not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Mesut Erhan Unal , Adriana Kovashka , Wen-Ting Chung , Yu-Ru Lin

Nowadays, misinformation is widely spreading over various social media platforms and causes extremely negative impacts on society. To combat this issue, automatically identifying misinformation, especially those containing multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bing Wang , Shengsheng Wang , Changchun Li , Renchu Guan , Ximing Li

With the rapid development of the Internet, the information dissemination paradigm has changed and the efficiency has been improved greatly. While this also brings the quick spread of fake news and leads to negative impacts on cyberspace.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Biwei Cao , Qihang Wu , Jiuxin Cao , Bo Liu , Jie Gui

The rise of disinformation on social media, especially through the strategic manipulation or repurposing of images, paired with provocative text, presents a complex challenge for traditional fact-checking methods. In this paper, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Arka Ujjal Dey , Artemis Llabrés , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Multimodal fake news detection (MFND) aims to verify news credibility by jointly exploiting textual and visual evidence. However, real-world news dissemination frequently suffers from missing modality due to deleted images, corrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kai Qian , Weijie Shi , Jiaqi Wang , Mengze Li , Hao Chen , Yue Cui , Hanghui Guo , Ziyi Liu , Jia Zhu , Jiajie Xu

The spread of misinformation in social media outlets has become a prevalent societal problem and is the cause of many kinds of social unrest. Curtailing its prevalence is of great importance and machine learning has shown significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yueyang Liu , Zois Boukouvalas , Nathalie Japkowicz

The proliferation of multimedia content on social media platforms has dramatically transformed how information is consumed and disseminated. While this shift enables real-time coverage of global events, it also facilitates the rapid spread…

In today's global digital landscape, misinformation transcends linguistic boundaries, posing a significant challenge for moderation systems. Most approaches to misinformation detection are monolingual, focused on high-resource languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xinyu Wang , Wenbo Zhang , Sarah Rajtmajer

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