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We present FakeSV-VLM in this paper, a new VLM-based framework for detecting fake news on short video platforms. Despite significant efforts to combat this issue due to the severe threat that fake news videos pose to public information…

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The proliferation of multimodal misinformation poses growing threats to public discourse and societal trust. While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have enabled recent progress in multimodal misinformation detection (MMD), the rise of…

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This study examines how fake news affects social media users across a range of age groups and how machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) can help reduce the spread of false information. The paper evaluates various machine…

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Fake news, false or misleading information presented as news, has a significant impact on many aspects of society, such as in politics or healthcare domains. Due to the deceiving nature of fake news, applying Natural Language Processing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Jian Cui , Kwanwoo Kim , Seung Ho Na , Seungwon Shin

Deepfakes have recently raised significant trust issues and security concerns among the public. Compared to CNN face forgery detectors, ViT-based methods take advantage of the expressivity of transformers, achieving superior detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Chenqi Kong , Anwei Luo , Peijun Bao , Yi Yu , Haoliang Li , Zengwei Zheng , Shiqi Wang , Alex C. Kot

In recent years, disinformation including fake news, has became a global phenomenon due to its explosive growth, particularly on social media. The wide spread of disinformation and fake news can cause detrimental societal effects. Despite…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kai Shu , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

The rapid spread of multimodal misinformation on social media has raised growing concerns, while research on video misinformation detection remains limited due to the lack of large-scale, diverse datasets. Existing methods often overfit to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fanrui Zhang , Dian Li , Qiang Zhang , Jun Chen , Gang Liu , Junxiong Lin , Jiahong Yan , Jiawei Liu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Social platforms, while facilitating access to information, have also become saturated with a plethora of fake news, resulting in negative consequences. Automatic multimodal fake news detection is a worthwhile pursuit. Existing multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Hao Guo , Zihan Ma , Zhi Zeng , Minnan Luo , Weixin Zeng , Jiuyang Tang , Xiang Zhao

Weakly supervised multimodal video anomaly detection has gained significant attention, yet the potential of the text modality remains under-explored. Text provides explicit semantic information that can enhance anomaly characterization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Shengyang Sun , Jiashen Hua , Junyi Feng , Xiaojin Gong

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

The proliferation of social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and Weibo has significantly enhanced the dissemination of false information. This phenomenon grants both individuals and governmental entities the ability to shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Makan Kananian , Fatima Badiei , S. AmirAli Gh. Ghahramani

Existing benchmarks for fake news detection have significantly contributed to the advancement of models in assessing the authenticity of news content. However, these benchmarks typically focus solely on news pertaining to a single semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ziyi Zhou , Xiaoming Zhang , Litian Zhang , Jiacheng Liu , Senzhang Wang , Zheng Liu , Xi Zhang , Chaozhuo Li , Philip S. Yu

The automated detection of false information has become a fundamental task in combating the spread of "fake news" on online social media networks (OSMN) as it reduces the need for manual discernment by individuals. In the literature,…

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With the rise of easily accessible tools for generating and manipulating multimedia content, realistic synthetic alterations to digital media have become a widespread threat, often involving manipulations across multiple modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Daniele Cardullo , Simone Teglia , Irene Amerini

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…

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In current web environment, fake news spreads rapidly across online social networks, posing serious threats to society. Existing multimodal fake news detection methods can generally be classified into knowledge-based and semantic-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xinqi Su , Zitong Yu , Yawen Cui , Ajian Liu , Xun Lin , Yuhao Wang , Haochen Liang , Wenhui Li , Li Shen , Xiaochun Cao

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

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

Social media has become a popular means for people to consume news. Meanwhile, it also enables the wide dissemination of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information, which brings significant negative effects to the society.…

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Multimodal graphs are gaining increasing attention due to their rich representational power and wide applicability, yet they introduce substantial challenges arising from severe modality confusion. To address this issue, we propose NSG…

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