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Emotion plays an important role in detecting fake news online. When leveraging emotional signals, the existing methods focus on exploiting the emotions of news contents that conveyed by the publishers (i.e., publisher emotion). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Xueyao Zhang , Juan Cao , Xirong Li , Qiang Sheng , Lei Zhong , Kai Shu

Identifying misinformation is increasingly being recognized as an important computational task with high potential social impact. Misinformation and fake contents are injected into almost every domain of news including politics, health,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Anoop K , Deepak P , Lajish V L

Bayesian Persuasion is proposed as a tool for social media platforms to combat the spread of misinformation. Since platforms can use machine learning to predict the popularity and misinformation features of to-be-shared posts, and users are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Safwan Hossain , Andjela Mladenovic , Yiling Chen , Gauthier Gidel

Modern social networks rely on recommender systems that inadvertently amplify misinformation by prioritizing engagement over content veracity. We present a control framework that mitigates misinformation spread while maintaining user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nicolo' Pagan , Andreas Philippou , Giulia De Pasquale

Social media are pervaded by unsubstantiated or untruthful rumors, that contribute to the alarming phenomenon of misinformation. The widespread presence of a heterogeneous mass of information sources may affect the mechanisms behind the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Fabiana Zollo , Walter Quattrociocchi

Internet overuse is a widespread phenomenon in today's digital society. Existing interventions, such as time limits or grayscaling, often rely on restrictive controls that provoke psychological reactance and are frequently circumvented.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Christoph Gebhardt , Robin Willardt , Seyedmorteza Sadat , Chih-Wei Ning , Andreas Brombach , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges , Christian Holz

The behaviour of sharing information on social media should be fulfilled only when a user is exhibiting attentive behaviour. So that the useful information can be consumed constructively, and misinformation can be identified and ignored.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Zaid Amin , Nazlena Mohamad Ali , Alan F. Smeaton

Computational communication research on information has been prevalent in recent years, as people are progressively inquisitive in social behavior and public opinion. Nevertheless, it is of great significance to analyze the direction of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Hongyuan Diao , Fuzhong Nian , Xuelong Yu , Xirui Liu , Xinhao Liu

Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have focused mainly on finding evidence of affect contagion in homophilic atmospheres. However, these studies have overlooked…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Belen Saldias , Rosalind W. Picard

Misinformation spread through social media has become a fundamental challenge in modern society. Recent studies have evaluated various strategies for addressing this problem, such as by modifying social media platforms or educating people…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jacqueline Urakami , Yeongdae Kim , Hiroki Oura , Katie Seaborn

Misinformation under the form of rumor, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories spreads on social media at alarming rates. One hypothesis is that, since social media are shaped by homophily, belief in misinformation may be more likely to thrive on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Marcella Tambuscio , Diego F. M. Oliveira , Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia , Giancarlo Ruffo

Under certain circumstances, humans tend to behave in irrational ways, leading to situations in which they make undesirable choices. The concept of digital nudging addresses these limitations of bounded rationality by establishing a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Christian Meske , Ireti Amojo

Diffusion of information and viral content, social contagion and influence are still topics of broad evaluation. We have studied the information epidemic in a social networking platform in order compare different campaign setups. The goal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Andrzej Jarynowski , Jaroslaw Jankowski , Anita Zbieg

The pervasiveness of online toxicity, including hate speech and trolling, disrupts digital interactions and online well-being. Previous research has mainly focused on post-hoc moderation, overlooking the real-time emotional dynamics of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Akriti Verma , Shama Islam , Valeh Moghaddam , Adnan Anwar

With the ever-increasing spread of misinformation on online social networks, it has become very important to identify the spreaders of misinformation (unintentional), disinformation (intentional), and misinformation refutation. It can help…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Euna Mehnaz Khan , Ayush Ram , Bhavtosh Rath , Emily Vraga , Jaideep Srivastava

As disinformation-driven cognitive attacks become increasingly sophisticated, the ability to quantify their impact is essential for advancing cybersecurity defense strategies. This paper presents a novel framework for measuring the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bonnie Rushing , Shouhuai Xu

One of the most significant issues as attended a lot in recent years is that of recognizing the sentiments and emotions in social media texts. The analysis of sentiments and emotions is intended to recognize the conceptual information such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Bahareh Golchin , Noushin Riahi

Privacy in Social Network Sites (SNSs) like Facebook or Instagram is closely related to people's self-disclosure decisions and their ability to foresee the consequences of sharing personal information with large and diverse audiences.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Nicolas E. Díaz Ferreyra , Esma Aïmeur , Hicham Hage , Maritta Heisel , Catherine García van Hoogstraten

Online social networks facilitate the diffusion of misinformation. Some theorists construe the problem of misinformation as a problem of knowledge, hence of ignorance. This assumption leads to solutions in which misinformation (false…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Brett Bourbon , Renita Murimi

In the digital era, social media has become a major conduit for information dissemination, yet it also facilitates the rapid spread of misinformation. Traditional misinformation detection methods primarily focus on surface-level features,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zihan Wang , Lu Yuan , Zhengxuan Zhang , Qing Zhao