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With a rise in false, inaccurate, and misleading information in propaganda, news, and social media, real-world Question Answering (QA) systems face the challenges of synthesizing and reasoning over misinformation-polluted contexts to derive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Liangming Pan , Wenhu Chen , Min-Yen Kan , William Yang Wang

Online misinformation is one of the most challenging issues lately, yielding severe consequences, including political polarization, attacks on democracy, and public health risks. Misinformation manifests in any platform with a large user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Breno Matos , Rennan C. Lima , Savvas Zannettou , Fabricio Benevenuto , Rodrygo L. T. Santos

Misinformation poses a critical societal challenge, and current approaches have yet to produce an effective solution. We propose focusing on generalization, uncertainty, and how to leverage recent large language models, in order to create…

With the advent of social media, an increasing number of netizens are sharing and reading posts and news online. However, the huge volumes of misinformation (e.g., fake news and rumors) that flood the internet can adversely affect people's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Zhiwei Liu , Tianlin Zhang , Kailai Yang , Paul Thompson , Zeping Yu , Sophia Ananiadou

The spread of misinformation through online social media platforms has had substantial societal consequences. As a result, platforms have introduced measures to alert users of news content that may be misleading or contain inaccuracies as a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Hana Habib , Sara Elsharawy , Rifat Rahman

The rapid proliferation of misinformation in digital media demands solutions that go beyond isolated Large Language Model(LLM) or AI Agent based detection methods. This paper introduces a novel multi-agent framework that covers the complete…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Aditya Gautam

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 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 misinformation on social media platforms (SMPs) poses a significant danger to public health, social cohesion and ultimately democracy. Previous research has shown how social correction can be an effective way to curb…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Daniel Russo , Shane Peter Kaszefski-Yaschuk , Jacopo Staiano , Marco Guerini

Misinformation -- false or misleading information -- is considered a significant societal concern due to its associated "misinformation effects," such as political polarization, erosion of trust in institutions, problematic behavior, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-30 Damian Hodel , Jevin West

Website reliability labels underpin almost all research in misinformation detection. However, misinformation sources often exhibit transient behavior, which makes many such labeled lists obsolete over time. We demonstrate that Search Engine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Peter Carragher , Evan M. Williams , Kathleen M. Carley

The quality of digital information on the web has been disquieting due to the lack of careful manual review. Consequently, a large volume of false textual information has been disseminating for a long time since the prevalence of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qiang Zhang , Hongbin Huang , Shangsong Liang , Zaiqiao Meng , Emine Yilmaz

The rapid proliferation of misinformation across online platforms underscores the urgent need for robust, up-to-date, explainable, and multilingual fact-checking resources. However, existing datasets are limited in scope, often lacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Z. Melce Hüsünbeyi , Virginie Mouilleron , Leonie Uhling , Daniel Foppe , Tatjana Scheffler , Djamé Seddah

This article introduces misinfo-general, a benchmark dataset for evaluating misinformation models' ability to perform out-of-distribution generalization. Misinformation changes rapidly, much more quickly than moderators can annotate at…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ivo Verhoeven , Pushkar Mishra , Ekaterina Shutova

Peer review serves as a backbone of academic research, but in most AI conferences, the review quality is degrading as the number of submissions explodes. To reliably detect low-quality reviews, we define misinformed review points as either…

In recent years there have been a growing interest in online auditing of information flow over social networks with the goal of monitoring undesirable effects, such as, misinformation and fake news. Most previous work on the subject, focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Daniel Toma , Wasim Huleihel

Misinformation is one of the key challenges facing society today. User-centered misinformation interventions as digital countermeasures that exert a direct influence on users represent a promising means to deal with the large amounts of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Katrin Hartwig , Frederic Doell , Christian Reuter

Online misinformation is increasingly pervasive, yet most existing benchmarks and methods evaluate veracity at the level of whole claims or paragraphs using coarse binary labels, obscuring how true and false details often co-exist within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhiwei Liu , Paul Thompson , Jiaqi Rong , Baojie Qu , Runteng Guo , Min Peng , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

Reducing the spread of misinformation is challenging. AI-based fact verification systems offer a promising solution by addressing the high costs and slow pace of traditional fact-checking. However, the problem of how to effectively…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Huiyun Tang , Björn Rohles , Yuwei Chuai , Gabriele Lenzini , Anastasia Sergeeva

With information consumption via online video streaming becoming increasingly popular, misinformation video poses a new threat to the health of the online information ecosystem. Though previous studies have made much progress in detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuyan Bu , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Peng Qi , Danding Wang , Jintao Li