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Information quality in social media is an increasingly important issue, but web-scale data hinders experts' ability to assess and correct much of the inaccurate content, or `fake news,' present in these platforms. This paper develops a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Cody Buntain , Jennifer Golbeck

With the development of social media, rumors spread quickly, cause great harm to society and economy. Thereby, many effective rumor detection methods have been developed, among which the rumor propagation structure learning based methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

Rumors spread dramatically fast through online social media services, and people are exploring methods to detect rumors automatically. Existing methods typically learn semantic representations of all reposts to a rumor candidate for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Changhe Song , Cunchao Tu , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates. The use of social media in such situations comes with the caveat that new information being released piecemeal may encourage rumours,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi , Peter Tolmie

Nowadays, Information spreads at an unprecedented pace in social media and discerning truth from misinformation and fake news has become an acute societal challenge. Machine learning (ML) models have been employed to identify fake news but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jasraj Singh , Fang Liu , Hong Xu , Bee Chin Ng , Wei Zhang

The spread of rumors along with breaking events seriously hinders the truth in the era of social media. Previous studies reveal that due to the lack of annotated resources, rumors presented in minority languages are hard to be detected.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongzhan Lin , Pengyao Yi , Jing Ma , Haiyun Jiang , Ziyang Luo , Shuming Shi , Ruifang Liu

With the recent advancements in social network platform technology, an overwhelming amount of information is spreading rapidly. In this situation, it can become increasingly difficult to discern what information is false or true. If false…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Otabek Sattarov , Jaeyoung Choi

In recent years, the problem of rumours on online social media (OSM) has attracted lots of attention. Researchers have started investigating from two main directions. First is the descriptive analysis of rumours and secondly, proposing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sabur Butt , Shakshi Sharma , Rajesh Sharma , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Malicious accounts spreading misinformation has led to widespread false and misleading narratives in recent times, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and social media platforms struggle to eliminate these contents rapidly. This is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Karishma Sharma , Emilio Ferrara , Yan Liu

It is difficult for humans to distinguish the true and false of rumors, but current deep learning models can surpass humans and achieve excellent accuracy on many rumor datasets. In this paper, we investigate whether deep learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

Fake news, rumor, incorrect information, and misinformation detection are nowadays crucial issues as these might have serious consequences for our social fabrics. The rate of such information is increasing rapidly due to the availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Arjun Roy , Kingshuk Basak , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Misinformation is becoming increasingly prevalent on social media and in news articles. It has become so widespread that we require algorithmic assistance utilising machine learning to detect such content. Training these machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Dan Saattrup Nielsen , Ryan McConville

Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo

Fake news detection in social media has become increasingly important due to the rapid proliferation of personal media channels and the consequential dissemination of misleading information. Existing methods, which primarily rely on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wanqing Zhao , Yuta Nakashima , Haiyuan Chen , Noboru Babaguchi

Rumour stance classification, defined as classifying the stance of specific social media posts into one of supporting, denying, querying or commenting on an earlier post, is becoming of increasing interest to researchers. While most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Elena Kochkina , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Michal Lukasik , Kalina Bontcheva , Trevor Cohn , Isabelle Augenstein

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technology development has facilitated the creation of rumors with misinformation, impacting societal, economic, and political ecosystems, challenging democracy. Current rumor detection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Junhao Xu , Longdi Xian , Zening Liu , Mingliang Chen , Qiuyang Yin , Fenghua Song

Detecting whether a news article is fake or genuine is a crucial task in today's digital world where it's easy to create and spread a misleading news article. This is especially true of news stories shared on social media since they don't…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Shashank Gupta , Raghuveer Thirukovalluru , Manjira Sinha , Sandya Mannarswamy

With the development of social media, various rumors can be easily spread on the Internet and such rumors can have serious negative effects on society. Thus, it has become a critical task for social media platforms to deal with suspected…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ran Wang , Kehan Du , Qianhe Chen , Yifei Zhao , Mojie Tang , Hongxi Tao , Shipan Wang , Yiyao Li , Yong Wang

Online social networks provide a convenient platform for the spread of rumors, which could lead to serious aftermaths such as economic losses and public panic. The classical rumor blocking problem aims to launch a set of nodes as a positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Jianxiong Guo , Tiantian Chen , Weili Wu

The development of social media platforms has revolutionized the speed and manner in which information is disseminated, leading to both beneficial and detrimental effects on society. While these platforms facilitate rapid communication,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liu Yan , Liu Yunpeng , Zhao Liang