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The widespread dissemination of multimodal content on social media has made misinformation detection increasingly challenging, as misleading narratives often arise not only from textual or visual content alone, but also from semantic…

Preventing the spread of misinformation is challenging. The detection of misleading content presents a significant hurdle due to its extreme linguistic and domain variability. Content-based models have managed to identify deceptive language…

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Social media in present times has a significant and growing influence. Fake news being spread on these platforms have a disruptive and damaging impact on our lives. Furthermore, as multimedia content improves the visibility of posts more…

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Fake news detection remains a challenging problem due to the complex interplay between textual misinformation, manipulated images, and external knowledge reasoning. While existing approaches have achieved notable results in verifying…

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Reputed by their low-cost, easy-access, real-time and valuable information, social media also wildly spread unverified or fake news. Rumors can notably cause severe damage on individuals and the society. Therefore, rumor detection on social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Abderrazek Azri , Cécile Favre , Nouria Harbi , Jérôme Darmont , Camille Noûs

Previous researches on multimedia fake news detection include a series of complex feature extraction and fusion networks to gather useful information from the news. However, how cross-modal consistency relates to the fidelity of news and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Qichao Ying , Xiaoxiao Hu , Yangming Zhou , Zhenxing Qian , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

Nefarious actors on social media and other platforms often spread rumors and falsehoods through images whose metadata (e.g., captions) have been modified to provide visual substantiation of the rumor/falsehood. This type of modification is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Ekraam Sabir , Wael AbdAlmageed , Yue Wu , Prem Natarajan

With social media becoming ubiquitous, information consumption from this media has also increased. However, one of the serious problems that have emerged with this increase, is the propagation of rumors. Therefore, rumor identification is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Mingxuan Chen , Ning Wang , K. P. Subbalakshmi

In recent years, detecting fake multimodal content on social media has drawn increasing attention. Two major forms of deception dominate: human-crafted misinformation (e.g., rumors and misleading posts) and AI-generated content produced by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Haiyang Li , Yaxiong Wang , Shengeng Tang , Lianwei Wu , Lechao Cheng , Zhun Zhong

The role of social media in opinion formation has far-reaching implications in all spheres of society. Though social media provide platforms for expressing news and views, it is hard to control the quality of posts due to the sheer volumes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rini Anggrainingsih , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Amitava Datta

Multimodal Misinformation Recognition has become an urgent task with the emergence of huge multimodal fake content on social media platforms. Previous studies mainly focus on complex feature extraction and fusion to learn discriminative…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hengyang Zhou , Yiwei Wei , Jian Yang , Zhenyu Zhang

The rapid development of social media changes the lifestyle of people and simultaneously provides an ideal place for publishing and disseminating rumors, which severely exacerbates social panic and triggers a crisis of social trust. Early…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Chunyuan Yuan , Wanhui Qian , Qianwen Ma , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

The evolution of electronic media is a mixed blessing. Due to the easy access, low cost, and faster reach of the information, people search out and devour news from online social networks. In contrast, the increasing acceptance of social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hema Karande , Rahee Walambe , Victor Benjamin , Ketan Kotecha , T. S. Raghu

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

Our main contribution in this work is novel results of multilingual models that go beyond typical applications of rumor or misinformation detection in English social news content to identify fine-grained classes of digital deception across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Maria Glenski , Ellyn Ayton , Josh Mendoza , Svitlana Volkova

The rapid proliferation of short video platforms has necessitated advanced methods for detecting fake news. This need arises from the widespread influence and ease of sharing misinformation, which can lead to significant societal harm.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shanghong Li , Chiam Wen Qi Ruth , Hong Xu , Fang Liu

The proliferation of fake news on social media platforms disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations, eroding trust, exacerbating inequality, and amplifying harmful narratives. Detecting fake news in multimodal contexts -- where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yifan Liu , Yaokun Liu , Zelin Li , Ruichen Yao , Yang Zhang , Dong Wang

With the development of social media, social communication has changed. While this facilitates people's communication and access to information, it also provides an ideal platform for spreading rumors. In normal or critical situations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao

In recent years, rumors have had a devastating impact on society, making rumor detection a significant challenge. However, the studies on rumor detection ignore the intense emotions of images in the rumor content. This paper verifies that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ge Wang , Li Tan , Ziliang Shang , He Liu

With the development of social media, rumors have been spread broadly on social media platforms, causing great harm to society. Beside textual information, many rumors also use manipulated images or conceal textual information within images…

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