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The rise of social media has amplified the spread of fake news, now further complicated by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, which ease the generation of highly convincing, error-free misinformation, making it increasingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Muhammad Zain Ali , Yuxia Wang , Bernhard Pfahringer , Tony Smith

As social media becomes increasingly prominent in our day to day lives, it is increasingly important to detect informative content and prevent the spread of disinformation and unverified rumours. While many sophisticated and successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Kellin Pelrine , Jacob Danovitch , Reihaneh Rabbany

The rapid spread of fake news across multimedia platforms presents serious challenges to information credibility. In this paper, we propose a Debunk-and-Infer framework for Fake News Detection(DIFND) that leverages debunking knowledge to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Kaiying Yan , Moyang Liu , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Xuefei Liu

With the rise of social media, misinformation has become increasingly prevalent, fueled largely by the spread of rumors. This study explores the use of Large Language Model (LLM) agents within a novel framework to simulate and analyze the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Tianrui Hu , Dimitrios Liakopoulos , Xiwen Wei , Radu Marculescu , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

The abundance of information in digital media, which in today's world is the main source of knowledge about current events for the masses, makes it possible to spread disinformation on a larger scale than ever before. Consequently, there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Leś , Paweł Zyblewski , Paweł Ksieniewicz , Michał Woźniak

Over the past few years, there has been a substantial effort towards automated detection of fake news on social media platforms. Existing research has modeled the structure, style, content, and patterns in dissemination of online posts, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Shantanu Chandra , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Madhav Nimishakavi , Marzieh Saeidi , Ekaterina Shutova

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

Misinformation on social media thrives on surprise, emotion, and identity-driven reasoning, often amplified through human cognitive biases. To investigate these mechanisms, we model large language model (LLM) personas as synthetic agents…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Raj Gaurav Maurya , Vaibhav Shukla , Raj Abhijit Dandekar , Rajat Dandekar , Sreedath Panat

The rapid advancement of deep generative models has significantly improved the realism of synthetic media, presenting both opportunities and security challenges. While deepfake technology has valuable applications in entertainment and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Arnesh Batra , Anushk Kumar , Jashn Khemani , Arush Gumber , Arhan Jain , Somil Gupta

Online fake news moderation now faces a new challenge brought by the malicious use of large language models (LLMs) in fake news production. Though existing works have shown LLM-generated fake news is hard to detect from an individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Beizhe Hu , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Yang Li , Danding Wang

Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. However, social media also enables the widespread of fake news. Because of its detrimental effects brought by social media, fake news detection has attracted increasing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Kai Shu , Deepak Mahudeswaran , Suhang Wang , Huan Liu

Explainable fake news detection aims to assess the veracity of news claims while providing human-friendly explanations. Existing methods incorporating investigative journalism are often inefficient and struggle with breaking news. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Bo Wang , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Zhiwei Yang , Ruichao Yang , Yuan Tian , Yi Chang

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

Since fake news poses a serious threat to society and individuals, numerous studies have been brought by considering text, propagation and user profiles. Due to the data collection problem, these methods based on propagation and user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yuhang Wang , Li Wang , Yanjie Yang , Yilin Zhang

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

The proliferation of misinformation on social media has raised significant societal concerns, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. Large Language Models such as GPT-4 and LLaMA2 have been envisioned as possible tools for detecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianyi Huang , Jingyuan Yi , Peiyang Yu , Xiaochuan Xu

It is commonly perceived that fake news and real news exhibit distinct writing styles, such as the use of sensationalist versus objective language. However, we emphasize that style-related features can also be exploited for style-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jiaying Wu , Jiafeng Guo , Bryan Hooi

The distribution of fake news is not a new but a rapidly growing problem. The shift to news consumption via social media has been one of the drivers for the spread of misleading and deliberately wrong information, as in addition to it of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Philipp Hartl , Udo Kruschwitz

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled the generation of highly realistic synthetic data. We identify a new vulnerability, LLMs generating convincing career trajectories in fake resumes and explore effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Michiharu Yamashita , Thanh Tran , Delvin Ce Zhang , Dongwon Lee

The spread of rumors on social media, particularly during significant events like the US elections and the COVID-19 pandemic, poses a serious threat to social stability and public health. Current rumor detection methods primarily rely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yusong Zhang , Kun Xie , Xingyi Zhang , Xiangyu Dong , Sibo Wang