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With the proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs), the detection of misinformation has become increasingly important and complex. This research proposes an innovative verifiable misinformation detection LLM agent that goes beyond…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zikun Cui , Tianyi Huang , Chia-En Chiang , Cuiqianhe Du

Factuality evaluation aims to detect factual errors produced by language models (LMs) and hence guide the development of more factual models. Towards this goal, we train a factuality evaluator, FenCE, that provides LM generators with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yiqing Xie , Wenxuan Zhou , Pradyot Prakash , Di Jin , Yuning Mao , Quintin Fettes , Arya Talebzadeh , Sinong Wang , Han Fang , Carolyn Rose , Daniel Fried , Hejia Zhang

The rapid spread of multilingual misinformation requires robust automated fact verification systems capable of handling fine-grained veracity assessments across diverse languages. While large language models have shown remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hanna Shcharbakova , Tatiana Anikina , Natalia Skachkova , Josef van Genabith

The significance of social media has increased manifold in the past few decades as it helps people from even the most remote corners of the world to stay connected. With the advent of technology, digital media has become more relevant and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Sourya Dipta Das , Ayan Basak , Saikat Dutta

In this demo paper, we present the XFake system, an explainable fake news detector that assists end-users to identify news credibility. To effectively detect and interpret the fakeness of news items, we jointly consider both attributes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Fan Yang , Shiva K. Pentyala , Sina Mohseni , Mengnan Du , Hao Yuan , Rhema Linder , Eric D. Ragan , Shuiwang Ji , Xia Hu

Foundation model reliability assessment typically requires thousands of evaluation examples, making it computationally expensive and time-consuming for real-world deployment. We introduce microprobe, a novel approach that achieves…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Aayam Bansal , Ishaan Gangwani

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in deception detection, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. However, statistical approaches to combating fake news has been dramatically limited by the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 William Yang Wang

Researchers have found that fake news spreads much times faster than real news. This is a major problem, especially in today's world where social media is the key source of news for many among the younger population. Fact verification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Suryavardan Suresh , Anku Rani , Parth Patwa , Aishwarya Reganti , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das , Amit Sheth , Asif Ekbal

Nowadays, the rapid diffusion of fake news poses a significant problem, as it can spread misinformation and confusion. This paper aims to develop an advanced machine learning solution for detecting fake news articles. Leveraging a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tanjina Sultana Camelia , Faizur Rahman Fahim , Md. Musfique Anwar

Counterfactual examples are widely employed to enhance the performance and robustness of large language models (LLMs) through counterfactual data augmentation (CDA). However, the selection of the judge model used to evaluate label flipping,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Qianli Wang , Van Bach Nguyen , Nils Feldhus , Luis Felipe Villa-Arenas , Christin Seifert , Sebastian Möller , Vera Schmitt

The paper considers the possibility of fine-tuning Llama 2 large language model (LLM) for the disinformation analysis and fake news detection. For fine-tuning, the PEFT/LoRA based approach was used. In the study, the model was fine-tuned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Bohdan M. Pavlyshenko

With social media usage growing exponentially in the past few years, fake news has also become extremely prevalent. The detrimental impact of fake news emphasizes the need for research focused on automating the detection of false…

As online news has become increasingly popular and fake news increasingly prevalent, the ability to audit the veracity of online news content has become more important than ever. Such a task represents a binary classification challenge, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ciara Blackledge , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Online reviews have a significant influence on customers' purchasing decisions for any products or services. However, fake reviews can mislead both consumers and companies. Several models have been developed to detect fake reviews using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Rami Mohawesh , Shuxiang Xu , Matthew Springer , Muna Al-Hawawreh , Sumbal Maqsood

The rampant integration of social media in our every day lives and culture has given rise to fast and easier access to the flow of information than ever in human history. However, the inherently unsupervised nature of social media platforms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Bibek Upadhayay , Vahid Behzadan

The proliferation of news media outlets has increased the demand for intelligent systems capable of detecting redundant information in news articles in order to enhance user experience. However, the heterogeneous nature of news can lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Elena Shushkevich , Long Mai , Manuel V. Loureiro , Steven Derby , Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Out-of-context (OOC) misinformation poses a significant challenge in multimodal fact-checking, where images are paired with texts that misrepresent their original context to support false narratives. Recent research in evidence-based OOC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis

The wide use of social media and digital technologies facilitates sharing various news and information about events and activities. Despite sharing positive information misleading and false information is also spreading on social media.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Prerona Tarannum , Firoj Alam , Md. Arid Hasan , Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

Real-world information, often multimodal, can be misinformed or potentially misleading due to factual errors, outdated claims, missing context, misinterpretation, and more. Such "misinformation" is understudied, challenging to address, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xinyi Zhou , Ashish Sharma , Amy X. Zhang , Tim Althoff

The rapid spread of misinformation on social media underscores the need for scalable fact-checking tools. A key step is claim detection, which identifies statements that can be objectively verified. Prior approaches often rely on linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yufeng Li , Arkaitz Zubiaga