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Feature extraction is an important process of machine learning and deep learning, as the process make algorithms function more efficiently, and also accurate. In natural language processing used in deception detection such as fake news…

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Social media is interactive, and interaction brings misinformation. With the growing amount of user-generated data, fake news on online platforms has become much frequent since the arrival of social networks. Now and then, an event occurs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Chahat Raj , Priyanka Meel

COVID-19 pandemic has generated what public health officials called an infodemic of misinformation. As social distancing and stay-at-home orders came into effect, many turned to social media for socializing. This increase in social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mir Mehedi A. Pritom , Rosana Montanez Rodriguez , Asad Ali Khan , Sebastian A. Nugroho , Esra'a Alrashydah , Beatrice N. Ruiz , Anthony Rios

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

This study investigates the linguistic traits of fake news and real news. There are two parts to this study: text data and speech data. The text data for this study consisted of 6420 COVID-19 related tweets re-filtered from Patwa et al.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Ng Bee Chin , Ng Zhi Ee Nicole , Kyla Kwan , Lee Yong Han Dylann , Liu Fang , Xu Hong

Fake news has emerged as a critical global issue, magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the need for effective preventive tools. Leveraging machine learning, including deep learning techniques, offers promise in combatting fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Dylan Warman , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

With the rapid growth of online information, the spread of fake news has become a serious social challenge. In this study, we propose a novel detection framework based on Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify and classify fake news by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaochuan Xu , Peiyang Yu , Zeqiu Xu , Jiani Wang

Nowadays, Information spreads at an unprecedented pace in social media and discerning truth from misinformation and fake news has become an acute societal challenge. Machine learning (ML) models have been employed to identify fake news but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Jasraj Singh , Fang Liu , Hong Xu , Bee Chin Ng , Wei Zhang

It has been argued that fake news and the spread of false information pose a threat to societies throughout the world, from influencing the results of elections to hindering the efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nathaniel Hoy , Theodora Koulouri

This work proposes and analyzes the use of keystroke biometrics for content de-anonymization. Fake news have become a powerful tool to manipulate public opinion, especially during major events. In particular, the massive spread of fake news…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Aythami Morales , Alejandro Acien , Julian Fierrez , John V. Monaco , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

False news has received attention from both the general public and the scholarly world. Such false information has the ability to affect public perception, giving nefarious groups the chance to influence the results of public events like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Biplob Kumar Sutradhar , Md. Zonaid , Nushrat Jahan Ria , Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

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

Many people use social networking services (SNSs) to easily access various news. There are numerous ways to obtain and share ``fake news,'' which are news carrying false information. To address fake news, several studies have been conducted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Taichi Murayama , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is probably the most disruptive global health disaster in recent history. It negatively impacted the whole world and virtually brought the global economy to a standstill. However, as the virus was…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Oluwaseun Ajao , Ashish Garg , Marjory Da Costa-Abreu

Identifying the veracity of a news article is an interesting problem while automating this process can be a challenging task. Detection of a news article as fake is still an open question as it is contingent on many factors which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Gaurav Bhatt , Aman Sharma , Shivam Sharma , Ankush Nagpal , Balasubramanian Raman , Ankush Mittal

Fake news is dramatically increased in social media in recent years. This has prompted the need for effective fake news detection algorithms. Capsule neural networks have been successful in computer vision and are receiving attention for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mohammad Hadi Goldani , Saeedeh Momtazi , Reza Safabakhsh

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

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

Fake News Detection is an essential problem in the field of Natural Language Processing. The benefits of an effective solution in this area are manifold for the goodwill of society. On a surface level, it broadly matches with the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lovedeep Singh

With the current shift in the mass media landscape from journalistic rigor to social media, personalized social media is becoming the new norm. Although the digitalization progress of the media brings many advantages, it also increases the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol