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The problem associated with the propagation of fake news continues to grow at an alarming scale. This trend has generated much interest from politics to academia and industry alike. We propose a framework that detects and classifies fake…

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COVID-19 has affected the world economy and the daily life routine of almost everyone. It has been a hot topic on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. These social media platforms enable users to share information with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Pervaiz Iqbal Khan , Imran Razzak , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

The spread of fake news, polarizing, politically biased, and harmful content on online platforms has been a serious concern. With large language models becoming a promising approach, however, no study has properly benchmarked their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Michele Joshua Maggini , Dhia Merzougui , Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay , Gaël Dias , Fabrice Maurel , Pablo Gamallo

The availability and interactive nature of social media have made them the primary source of news around the globe. The popularity of social media tempts criminals to pursue their immoral intentions by producing and disseminating fake news…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-29 Faeze Ghorbanpour , Maryam Ramezani , Mohammad A. Fazli , Hamid R. Rabiee

Fake news detection algorithms apply machine learning to various news attributes and their relationships. However, their success is usually evaluated based on how the algorithm performs on a static benchmark, independent of real users. On…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bruno Tafur , Advait Sarkar

The evolution of social media platforms have empowered everyone to access information easily. Social media users can easily share information with the rest of the world. This may sometimes encourage spread of fake news, which can result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Tathagata Raha , Vijayasaradhi Indurthi , Aayush Upadhyaya , Jeevesh Kataria , Pramud Bommakanti , Vikram Keswani , Vasudeva Varma

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an infodemic where an overwhelming amount of COVID-19 related content was being disseminated at high velocity through social media. This made it challenging for citizens to differentiate between accurate and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yida Mu , Ye Jiang , Freddy Heppell , Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

Fake news, rumor, incorrect information, and misinformation detection are nowadays crucial issues as these might have serious consequences for our social fabrics. The rate of such information is increasing rapidly due to the availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Arjun Roy , Kingshuk Basak , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Fake news travels at unprecedented speeds, reaches global audiences and puts users and communities at great risk via social media platforms. Deep learning based models show good performance when trained on large amounts of labeled data on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yaqing Wang , Fenglong Ma , Haoyu Wang , Kishlay Jha , Jing Gao

The abundance of information in digital media, which in today's world is the main source of knowledge about current events for the masses, makes it possible to spread disinformation on a larger scale than ever before. Consequently, there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jędrzej Kozal , Michał Leś , Paweł Zyblewski , Paweł Ksieniewicz , Michał Woźniak

As the Internet and social media evolve rapidly, distinguishing credible news from a vast amount of complex information poses a significant challenge. Due to the suddenness and instability of news events, the authenticity labels of news can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Di Jin , Jun Yang , Xiaobao Wang , Junwei Zhang , Shuqi Li , Dongxiao He

Connectivity plays an ever-increasing role in modern society, with people all around the world having easy access to rapidly disseminated information. However, a more interconnected society enables the spread of intentionally false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 João Vitorino , Tiago Dias , Tiago Fonseca , Nuno Oliveira , Isabel Praça

Measuring the congruence between two texts has several useful applications, such as detecting the prevalent deceptive and misleading news headlines on the web. Many works have proposed machine learning based solutions such as text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Rahul Mishra , Piyush Yadav , Remi Calizzano , Markus Leippold

With social media being a major force in information consumption, accelerated propagation of fake news has presented new challenges for platforms to distinguish between legitimate and fake news. Effective fake news detection is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad , Mansooreh Karami , Kai Shu , Michelle V. Mancenido , Huan Liu

Internet is one of the important inventions and a large number of persons are its users. These persons use this for different purposes. There are different social media platforms that are accessible to these users. Any user can make a post…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alim Al Ayub Ahmed , Ayman Aljabouh , Praveen Kumar Donepudi , Myung Suh Choi

Development of methods to detect fake news (FN) in low-resource languages has been impeded by a lack of training data. In this study, we solve the problem by using only training data from a high-resource language. Our FN-detection system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Sangdo Han

Digital information exchange enables quick creation and sharing of information and thus changes existing habits. Social media is becoming the main source of news for end-users replacing traditional media. This also enables the proliferation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Aljaž Zrnec , Marko Poženel , Dejan Lavbič

Both real and fake news in various domains, such as politics, health, and entertainment are spread via online social media every day, necessitating fake news detection for multiple domains. Among them, fake news in specific domains like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Qiong Nan , Danding Wang , Yongchun Zhu , Qiang Sheng , Yuhui Shi , Juan Cao , Jintao Li

The rising growth of fake news and misleading information through online media outlets demands an automatic method for detecting such news articles. Of the few limited works which differentiate between trusted vs other types of news article…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vaibhav Vaibhav , Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Eduard Hovy

The distribution of fake news is not a new but a rapidly growing problem. The shift to news consumption via social media has been one of the drivers for the spread of misleading and deliberately wrong information, as in addition to it of…

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