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The prevalence of short video platforms has spawned a lot of fake news videos, which have stronger propagation ability than textual fake news. Thus, automatically detecting fake news videos has been an important countermeasure in practice.…

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Recently, online social media has become a primary source for new information and misinformation or rumours. In the absence of an automatic rumour detection system the propagation of rumours has increased manifold leading to serious…

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Social graph-based fake news detection aims to identify news articles containing false information by utilizing social contexts, e.g., user information, tweets and comments. However, conventional methods are evaluated under less realistic…

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Fake news poses global risks by influencing elections and spreading misinformation, making detection critical. Existing NLP and supervised Machine Learning methods perform well under cross-validation but struggle to generalise across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nathaniel Hoy , Theodora Koulouri

The rapid advancement of social media platforms has significantly reduced the cost of information dissemination, yet it has also led to a proliferation of fake news, posing a threat to societal trust and credibility. Most of fake news…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Aohan Li , Jiaxin Chen , Xin Liao , Dengyong Zhang

Traditional Graph Neural Network (GNN) approaches for fake news detection (FND) often depend on auxiliary, non-textual data such as user interaction histories or content dissemination patterns. However, these data sources are not always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anantram Patel , Vijay Kumar Sutrakar

With the proliferation of social media, the detection of fake news has become a critical issue that poses a significant threat to society. The dissemination of fake information can lead to social harm and damage the credibility of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Qian Chang , Xia Lia , Patrick S. W. Fong

Although significant effort has been applied to fact-checking, the prevalence of fake news over social media, which has profound impact on justice, public trust and our society, remains a serious problem. In this work, we focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Yi Han , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

Most Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) cannot distinguish some graphs or indeed some pairs of nodes within a graph. This makes it impossible to solve certain classification tasks. However, adding additional node features to these models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Beni Egressy , Roger Wattenhofer

As recent events have demonstrated, disinformation spread through social networks can have dire political, economic and social consequences. Detecting disinformation must inevitably rely on the structure of the network, on users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Marius Paraschiv , Nikos Salamanos , Costas Iordanou , Nikolaos Laoutaris , Michael Sirivianos

Over the last years, there has been an unprecedented proliferation of fake news. As a consequence, we are more susceptible to the pernicious impact that misinformation and disinformation spreading can have in different segments of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Santiago Alonso-Bartolome , Isabel Segura-Bedmar

Social media becomes the central way for people to obtain and utilise news, due to its rapidness and inexpensive value of data distribution. Though, such features of social media platforms also present it a root cause of fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Priyanka Meel , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma

The rapid proliferation of rumors on social networks poses a significant threat to information integrity. While rumor dissemination forms complex structural patterns, existing detection methods often fail to capture the intricate interplay…

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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

The increasing popularity of social media promotes the proliferation of fake news. With the development of multimedia technology, fake news attempts to utilize multimedia contents with images or videos to attract and mislead readers for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Peng Qi , Juan Cao , Tianyun Yang , Junbo Guo , Jintao Li

In recent years, malicious information had an explosive growth in social media, with serious social and political backlashes. Recent important studies, featuring large-scale analyses, have produced deeper knowledge about this phenomenon,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francesco Pierri , Carlo Piccardi , Stefano Ceri

Easier access to the internet and social media has made disseminating information through online sources very easy. Sources like Facebook, Twitter, online news sites and personal blogs of self-proclaimed journalists have become significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shaily Bhatt , Sakshi Kalra , Naman Goenka , Yashvardhan Sharma

Nowadays, People prefer to follow the latest news on social media, as it is cheap, easily accessible, and quickly disseminated. However, it can spread fake or unreliable, low-quality news that intentionally contains false information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zainab A. Jawad , Ahmed J. Obaid

Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony and affect society, especially when dealing with an epidemic like COVID-19. The task of Fake News Detection aims to tackle the effects of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mrinal Rawat , Diptesh Kanojia

The global spread of misinformation and concerns about content trustworthiness have driven the development of automated fact-checking systems. Since false information often exploits social media dynamics such as "likes" and user networks to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vítor N. Lourenço , Aline Paes , Tillman Weyde