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As AI-generated content becomes widespread, so does the risk of misinformation. While prior research has primarily focused on identifying whether content is authentic, much less is known about how such content influences human perception…

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The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments (sometimes subsumed under the Dead…

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Recent advancements in AI, especially deep learning, have contributed to a significant increase in the creation of new realistic-looking synthetic media (video, image, and audio) and manipulation of existing media, which has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Enes Altuncu , Virginia N. L. Franqueira , Shujun Li

Social media platforms provide an ideal environment to spread misinformation, where social bots can accelerate the spread. This paper explores the interplay between social bots and misinformation on the Sina Weibo platform. We construct a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Herun Wan , Minnan Luo , Zihan Ma , Guang Dai , Xiang Zhao

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

Fact checking can be an effective strategy against misinformation, but its implementation at scale is impeded by the overwhelming volume of information online. Recent artificial intelligence (AI) language models have shown impressive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Matthew R. DeVerna , Harry Yaojun Yan , Kai-Cheng Yang , Filippo Menczer

Misinformation on social media presents a major threat to modern societies. While previous research has analyzed the virality across true and false social media posts, not every misleading post is necessarily equally viral. Rather,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Chiara Drolsbach , Nicolas Pröllochs

Despite recent advances in understanding the capabilities and limits of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models, we are just beginning to understand their capacity to assess and reason about the veracity of content. We evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yuehong Cassandra Tai , Khushi Navin Patni , Nicholas Daniel Hemauer , Bruce Desmarais , Yu-Ru Lin

The rapid advancement of generative models in creating highly realistic images poses substantial risks for misinformation dissemination. For instance, a synthetic image, when shared on social media, can mislead extensive audiences and erode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhenglin Huang , Jinwei Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yiwei He , Xingyu Zhao , Bei Peng , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaowei Huang , Guangliang Cheng

Recent advances in Generative AI (GenAI) have led to significant improvements in the quality of generated visual content. As AI-generated visual content becomes increasingly indistinguishable from real content, the challenge of detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Keerthi Veeramachaneni , Praveen Tirupattur , Amrit Singh Bedi , Mubarak Shah

Deepfake technologies are often associated with deception, misinformation, and identity fraud, raising legitimate societal concerns. Yet such narratives may obscure a key insight: deepfakes embody sophisticated capabilities for sensory…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yizhi Liu , Balaji Padmanabhan , Siva Viswanathan

Nearly a decade of Machine Learning (ML) research on deepfake detection has been organized around a threat model inherited from 2017--2019, revolving around face-swap and talking-head manipulation of public figures, motivated by concerns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Shaina Raza

With the rapid growth of social media, massive misinformation is also spreading widely on social media, such as microblog, and bring negative effects to human life. Nowadays, automatic misinformation identification has drawn attention from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Qiang Liu , Feng Yu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a significant threat to the integrity of information dissemination, particularly on social media platforms. Misinformation can spread quickly due to the ease of creating and disseminating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mesay Gemeda Yigezu , Melkamu Abay Mersha , Girma Yohannis Bade , Jugal Kalita , Olga Kolesnikova , Alexander Gelbukh

Recommendation algorithms have been pointed out as one of the major culprits of misinformation spreading in the digital sphere. However, it is still unclear how these algorithms really propagate misinformation, e.g., it has not been shown…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Miriam Fernández , Alejandro Bellogín , Iván Cantador

Explicit labeling of online content produced by artificial intelligence (AI) is a widely discussed policy for ensuring transparency and promoting public confidence. Yet little is known about the scope of AI labeling effects on public…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chuyao Wang , Patrick Sturgis , Daniel de Kadt

In recent years, detecting fake multimodal content on social media has drawn increasing attention. Two major forms of deception dominate: human-crafted misinformation (e.g., rumors and misleading posts) and AI-generated content produced by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Haiyang Li , Yaxiong Wang , Shengeng Tang , Lianwei Wu , Lechao Cheng , Zhun Zhong

The growth of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has shifted disinformation production from manual fabrication to automated, large-scale manipulation. This article presents findings from the first wave of a longitudinal expert…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Alexander Loth , Martin Kappes , Marc-Oliver Pahl

The rapid growth of social media presents a unique opportunity to study coordinated agent behavior in an unfiltered environment. Online processes often exhibit complex structures that reflect the nature of the user behavior, whether it is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Anna Kalenkova , Lewis Mitchell , Ethan Johnson

Detecting AI-generated text is a difficult problem to begin with; detecting AI-generated text on social media is made even more difficult due to the short text length and informal, idiosyncratic language of the internet. It is nonetheless…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hillary Dawkins , Kathleen C. Fraser , Svetlana Kiritchenko