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The explosive growth of rumors with text and images on social media platforms has drawn great attention. Existing studies have made significant contributions to cross-modal information interaction and fusion, but they fail to fully explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jiawei Liu , Jingyi Xie , Fanrui Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Zheng-jun Zha

In this new digital era, social media has created a severe impact on the lives of people. In recent times, fake news content on social media has become one of the major challenging problems for society. The dissemination of fabricated and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ashima Yadav , Shivani Gaba , Haneef Khan , Ishan Budhiraja , Akansha Singh , Krishan Kant Singh

We address the challenge of detecting questionable content in online media, specifically the subcategory of comic mischief. This type of content combines elements such as violence, adult content, or sarcasm with humor, making it difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Elaheh Baharlouei , Mahsa Shafaei , Yigeng Zhang , Hugo Jair Escalante , Thamar Solorio

The massive spread of misinformation in social networks has become a global risk, implicitly influencing public opinion and threatening social/political development. Misinformation detection (MID) has thus become a surging research topic in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Bin Guo , Yasan Ding , Lina Yao , Yunji Liang , Zhiwen Yu

Although social bots can be engineered for constructive applications, their potential for misuse in manipulative schemes and malware distribution cannot be overlooked. This dichotomy underscores the critical need to detect social bots on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Tingxuan Wu , Zhaorui Ma , Yanjun Cui , Ziyi Zhou , Eric Wang

There is a rapidly growing need for multimodal content moderation (CM) as more and more content on social media is multimodal in nature. Existing unimodal CM systems may fail to catch harmful content that crosses modalities (e.g., memes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jialin Yuan , Ye Yu , Gaurav Mittal , Matthew Hall , Sandra Sajeev , Mei Chen

One of the most challenging forms of misinformation involves pairing images with misleading text to create false narratives. Existing AI-driven detection systems often require domain-specific finetuning, limiting generalizability, and offer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kumud Lakara , Georgia Channing , Christian Rupprecht , Juil Sock , Philip Torr , John Collomosse , Christian Schroeder de Witt

Recent developments in image classification and natural language processing, coupled with the rapid growth in social media usage, have enabled fundamental advances in detecting breaking events around the world in real-time. Emergency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Mahdi Abavisani , Liwei Wu , Shengli Hu , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

Social media platforms enable the propagation of hateful content across different modalities such as textual, auditory, and visual, necessitating effective detection methods. While recent approaches have shown promise in handling individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Girish A. Koushik , Diptesh Kanojia , Helen Treharne

The proliferation of misinformation in digital platforms reveals the limitations of traditional detection methods, which mostly rely on static classification and fail to capture the intricate process of real-world fact-checking. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Chen Han , Wenzhen Zheng , Xijin Tang

In this paper, we delve into the rapidly evolving challenge of misinformation detection, with a specific focus on the nuanced manipulation of narrative frames - an under-explored area within the AI community. The potential for Generative AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Guan Wang , Rebecca Frederick , Jinglong Duan , William Wong , Verica Rupar , Weihua Li , Quan Bai

Short video platforms have become a major medium for information sharing, but their rapid content generation and algorithmic amplification also enable the widespread dissemination of fake news. Detecting misinformation in short videos is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Haisong Gong , Bolan Su , Xinrong Zhang , Jing Li , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Identifying fake news is a very difficult task, especially when considering the multiple modes of conveying information through text, image, video and/or audio. We attempted to tackle the problem of automated misinformation/disinformation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Abhishek Dhankar , Osmar R. Zaïane , Francois Bolduc

Multimodal representation learning, exemplified by multimodal contrastive learning (MMCL) using image-text pairs, aims to learn powerful representations by aligning cues across modalities. This approach relies on the core assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yichao Cai , Yuhang Liu , Erdun Gao , Tianjiao Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Multi-view clustering can explore common semantics from multiple views and has received increasing attention in recent years. However, current methods focus on learning consistency in representation, neglecting the contribution of each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Bo Li , Jing Yun

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are prone to non-factual or outdated knowledge issues, which can manifest as misreading and misrecognition errors due to the complexity of multimodal knowledge. Previous benchmarks have not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Junzhe Zhang , Huixuan Zhang , Xunjian Yin , Baizhou Huang , Xu Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Xiaojun Wan

With the rapid advancement of generative AI, synthetic content across images, videos, and audio has become increasingly realistic, amplifying the risk of misinformation. Existing detection approaches predominantly focus on binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xu Yang , Qi Zhang , Shuming Jiang , Yaowen Xu , Zhaofan Zou , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

Multimodal deep learning systems which employ multiple modalities like text, image, audio, video, etc., are showing better performance in comparison with individual modalities (i.e., unimodal) systems. Multimodal machine learning involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Anil Rahate , Rahee Walambe , Sheela Ramanna , Ketan Kotecha

The development of Internet technology has led to an increased prevalence of misinformation, causing severe negative effects across diverse domains. To mitigate this challenge, Misinformation Detection (MD), aiming to detect online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Bing Wang , Ximing Li , Changchun Li , Bingrui Zhao , Bo Fu , Renchu Guan , Shengsheng Wang

Social media increasingly disseminates information through mixed image text posts, but rumors often exploit subtle inconsistencies and forged content, making detection based solely on post content difficult. Deep semantic mismatch rumors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Han Li , Hua Sun