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This paper gives the overview of the first shared task at FIRE 2020 on fake news detection in the Urdu language. This is a binary classification task in which the goal is to identify fake news using a dataset composed of 900 annotated news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Maaz Amjad , Grigori Sidorov , Alisa Zhila , Alexander Gelbukh , Paolo Rosso

The proliferation of deceptive content online necessitates robust Fake News Detection (FND) systems. While evidence-based approaches leverage external knowledge to verify claims, existing methods face critical limitations: noisy evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yuzhou Yang , Yangming Zhou , Zhiying Zhu , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang , Sheng Li

Finding similarities between two inter-language news articles is a challenging problem of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is difficult to find similar news articles in a different language other than the native language of user, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Sameea Naeem , Arif ur Rahman , Syed Mujtaba Haider , Abdul Basit Mughal

Automatic detection of fake news is a highly important task in the contemporary world. This study reports the 2nd shared task called UrduFake@FIRE2021 on identifying fake news detection in Urdu. The goal of the shared task is to motivate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Maaz Amjad , Sabur Butt , Hamza Imam Amjad , Alisa Zhila , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Short video platforms have become important channels for news dissemination, offering a highly engaging and immediate way for users to access current events and share information. However, these platforms have also emerged as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Weihao Zhong , Yinhao Xiao , Minghui Xu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Fake news spread widely on social media in various domains, which lead to real-world threats in many aspects like politics, disasters, and finance. Most existing approaches focus on single-domain fake news detection (SFND), which leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Qiong Nan , Juan Cao , Yongchun Zhu , Yanyan Wang , Jintao Li

The proliferation of multi-modal fake news on social media poses a significant threat to public trust and social stability. Traditional detection methods, primarily text-based, often fall short due to the deceptive interplay between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Junhao He , Tianyu Liu , Jingyuan Zhao , Benjamin Turner

The spread of fake news has emerged as a critical challenge, undermining trust and posing threats to society. In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), the capability to generate believable fake content has intensified these concerns. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jinyan Su , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jonibek Mansurov , Di Wang , Preslav Nakov

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

Fake news detection remains a critical challenge in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, where misinformation can spread faster than ever before. Traditional fake news detection models often rely on static datasets and auxiliary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ruoyu Xu , Gaoxiang Li

Fake news becomes a growing threat to information security and public opinion with the rapid sprawl of media manipulation. Therefore, fake news detection attracts widespread attention from academic community. Traditional fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ruihan Jin , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Shuai Zhang , Yukun Liu , Jianhua Tao

This overview paper describes the first shared task on fake news detection in Urdu language. The task was posed as a binary classification task, in which the goal is to differentiate between real and fake news. We provided a dataset divided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Maaz Amjad , Grigori Sidorov , Alisa Zhila , Alexander Gelbukh , Paolo Rosso

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed human writing by enhancing grammar correction, content expansion, and stylistic refinement. However, their widespread use raises concerns about authorship, originality, and ethics, even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zhen Tao , Zhiyu Li , Runyu Chen , Dinghao Xi , Wei Xu

In the current digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation on online platforms presents significant challenges to societal well-being, public trust, and democratic processes, influencing critical decision making and public opinion. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Xinyi Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Edward C. Malthouse

Detecting fake news requires both a delicate sense of diverse clues and a profound understanding of the real-world background, which remains challenging for detectors based on small language models (SLMs) due to their knowledge and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Beizhe Hu , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Yuhui Shi , Yang Li , Danding Wang , Peng Qi

Multimodal fake news detection is crucial for mitigating societal disinformation. Existing approaches attempt to address this by fusing multimodal features or leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for advanced reasoning. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Weilin Zhou , Shanwen Tan , Enhao Gu , Yurong Qian

Observing the damages that can be done by the rapid propagation of fake news in various sectors like politics and finance, automatic identification of fake news using linguistic analysis has drawn the attention of the research community.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Md Zobaer Hossain , Md Ashraful Rahman , Md Saiful Islam , Sudipta Kar

In recent years, multimodal multidomain fake news detection has garnered increasing attention. Nevertheless, this direction presents two significant challenges: (1) Failure to Capture Cross-Instance Narrative Consistency: existing models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yiheng Li , Weihai Lu , Hanyi Yu , Yue Wang

Fake news detection methods based on writing style have achieved remarkable progress. However, as adversaries increasingly imitate the style of authentic news, the effectiveness of such approaches is gradually diminishing. Recent research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jing He , Han Zhang , Yuanhui Xiao , Wei Guo , Shaowen Yao , Renyang Liu

The widespread dissemination of fake news on social media has significantly impacted society, resulting in serious consequences. Conventional deep learning methodologies employing small language models (SLMs) suffer from extensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ziyi Zhou , Xiaoming Zhang , Litian Zhang , Yibo Zhang , Zhenyu Guan , Chaozhuo Li , Philip S. Yu