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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in visual reasoning and text generation. While previous studies have explored the application of MLLM for detecting out-of-context (OOC) misinformation, our…

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Multimodal misinformation increasingly leverages visual persuasion, where repurposed or manipulated images strengthen misleading text. We introduce \textbf{RW-Post}, a post-aligned \textbf{text--image benchmark} for real-world multimodal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Danni Xu , Shaojing Fan , Harry Cheng , Mohan Kankanhalli

The prevalence of new technologies and social media has amplified the effects of misinformation on our societies. Thus, it is necessary to create computational tools to mitigate their effects effectively. This study aims to provide a…

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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

Effectively leveraging multimodal data such as various images, laboratory tests and clinical information is gaining traction in a variety of AI-based medical diagnosis and prognosis tasks. Most existing multi-modal techniques only focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yingying Fang , Shuang Wu , Sheng Zhang , Chaoyan Huang , Tieyong Zeng , Xiaodan Xing , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for misinformation detection and fact checking. Recent advances on large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sahar Tahmasebi , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

Social media content routinely incorporates multi-modal design to covey information and shape meanings, and sway interpretations toward desirable implications, but the choices and outcomes of using both texts and visual images have not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Mesut Erhan Unal , Adriana Kovashka , Wen-Ting Chung , Yu-Ru Lin

Since 2016, the amount of academic research with the keyword "misinformation" has more than doubled [2]. This research often focuses on article headlines shown in artificial testing environments, yet misinformation largely spreads through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Emily Saltz , Claire Leibowicz , Claire Wardle

As a critical task in data quality control, claim verification aims to curb the spread of misinformation by assessing the truthfulness of claims based on a wide range of evidence. However, traditional methods often overlook the complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hanghui Guo , Shimin Di , Pasquale De Meo , Zhangze Chen , Jia Zhu

Real-world problems are often dependent on multiple data modalities, making multimodal fusion essential for leveraging diverse information sources. In high-stakes domains, such as in healthcare, understanding how each modality contributes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mafalda Malafaia , Thalea Schlender , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

With the rapid growth of online misinformation, it is crucial to have reliable fact-checking methods. Recent research on finding check-worthy claims and automated fact-checking have made significant advancements. However, limited guidance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Danula Hettiachchi , Kaixin Ji , Jenny Kennedy , Anthony McCosker , Flora D. Salim , Mark Sanderson , Falk Scholer , Damiano Spina

As medical diagnoses increasingly leverage multimodal data, machine learning models are expected to effectively fuse heterogeneous information while remaining robust to missing modalities. In this work, we propose a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yi Gu , Kuniaki Saito , Jiaxin Ma

The rapid proliferation of online misinformation threatens the stability of digital social systems and poses significant risks to public trust, policy, and safety, necessitating reliable automated fake news detection. Existing methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Roopa Bukke , Soumya Pandey , Suraj Kumar , Soumi Chattopadhyay , Chandranath Adak

Multimodal Fake News Detection has received increasing attention recently. Existing methods rely on independently encoded unimodal data and overlook the advantages of capturing intra-modality relationships and integrating inter-modal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Eunjee Choi , Junhyun Ahn , XinYu Piao , Jong-Kook Kim

Automatic detection of multimodal misinformation has gained a widespread attention recently. However, the potential of powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) for multimodal misinformation detection remains underexplored. Besides, how to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Longzheng Wang , Xiaohan Xu , Lei Zhang , Jiarui Lu , Yongxiu Xu , Hongbo Xu , Minghao Tang , Chuang Zhang

In recent years, misinformation on the Web has become increasingly rampant. The research community has responded by proposing systems and challenges, which are beginning to be useful for (various subtasks of) detecting misinformation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ronald Denaux , Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez

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

The proliferation of fake news and its serious negative social influence push fake news detection methods to become necessary tools for web managers. Meanwhile, the multi-media nature of social media makes multi-modal fake news detection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jinyin Chen , Chengyu Jia , Haibin Zheng , Ruoxi Chen , Chenbo Fu

With the rapid advancement of generative AI, synthetic content across images, videos, and audio has become increasingly realistic, amplifying the risk of misinformation. Existing detection approaches predominantly focus on binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xu Yang , Qi Zhang , Shuming Jiang , Yaowen Xu , Zhaofan Zou , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

In today's digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation poses threats to public well-being and societal trust. As online misinformation proliferates, manual verification by fact checkers becomes increasingly challenging. We introduce…

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