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TRUST Agents is a collaborative multi-agent framework for explainable fact verification and fake news detection. Rather than treating verification as a simple true-or-false classification task, the system identifies verifiable claims,…

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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced video misinformation detection through unified multimodal reasoning, but they often rely on fixed-depth inference and place excessive trust in internally generated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zehao Li , Hongwei Yu , Hao Jiang , Qiang Sheng , Yilong Xu , Baolong Bi , Yang Li , Zhenlong Yuan , Yujun Cai , Zhaoqi Wang

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

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

Multimodal Stance Detection (MSD) is crucial for understanding public discourse, yet effectively fusing text and image, especially with conflicting signals, remains challenging. Existing methods often face difficulties with contextual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Weihai Lu , Zhejun Zhao , Yanshu Li , Huan He

Large language models (LLMs) incorporated with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have demonstrated powerful capabilities in generating counterspeech against misinformation. However, current studies rely on limited evidence and offer less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Anirban Saha Anik , Xiaoying Song , Elliott Wang , Bryan Wang , Bengisu Yarimbas , Lingzi Hong

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

The growing societal dependence on social media and user generated content for news and information has increased the influence of unreliable sources and fake content, which muddles public discourse and lessens trust in the media.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Marjan Hosseini , Alireza Javadian Sabet , Suining He , Derek Aguiar

With the rise of easily accessible tools for generating and manipulating multimedia content, realistic synthetic alterations to digital media have become a widespread threat, often involving manipulations across multiple modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Daniele Cardullo , Simone Teglia , Irene Amerini

The proliferation of fake news in the digital age has raised critical concerns, particularly regarding its impact on societal trust and democratic processes. Diverging from conventional agent-based simulation approaches, this work…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Xinyi Li , Yu Xu , Yongfeng Zhang , Edward C. Malthouse

The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a severe societal problem, raising significant interest from industry and academia. While existing deep-learning based methods have made progress in detecting fake news accurately, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hui Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoru Li , Haoliang Li

The widespread of fake news and misinformation in various domains ranging from politics, economics to public health has posed an urgent need to automatically fact-check information. A recent trend in fake news detection is to utilize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee

The web has become a crucial source of information, but it is also used to spread disinformation, often conveyed through multiple modalities like images and text. The identification of inconsistent cross-modal information, in particular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Sahar Tahmasebi , David Ernst , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

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

One of the most challenging forms of misinformation involves pairing images with misleading text to create false narratives. Existing AI-driven detection systems often require domain-specific finetuning, limiting generalizability, and offer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kumud Lakara , Georgia Channing , Christian Rupprecht , Juil Sock , Philip Torr , John Collomosse , Christian Schroeder de Witt

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

The proliferation of misinformation in journalism, often stemming from flawed reasoning and logical fallacies, poses significant challenges to public understanding and trust in news media. Traditional fact-checking methods, while valuable,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Arlen Fan , Fan Lei , Steven R. Corman , Ross Maciejewski

The rapid proliferation of misinformation in digital media demands solutions that go beyond isolated Large Language Model(LLM) or AI Agent based detection methods. This paper introduces a novel multi-agent framework that covers the complete…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Aditya Gautam

Fake News Detection (FND) is an essential field in natural language processing that aims to identify and check the truthfulness of major claims in a news article to decide the news veracity. FND finds its uses in preventing social,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Prabhav Singh , Ridam Srivastava , K. P. S. Rana , Vineet Kumar

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…

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