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The rise of social media has ignited an unprecedented circulation of false information in our society. It is even more evident in times of crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Fact-checking efforts have expanded greatly and have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Wilson Ceron , Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos , Marcos G. Quiles

Fake tweets are observed to be ever-increasing, demanding immediate countermeasures to combat their spread. During COVID-19, tweets with misinformation should be flagged and neutralized in their early stages to mitigate the damages. Most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rachit Bansal , William Scott Paka , Nidhi , Shubhashis Sengupta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

The rapid spread of fake news across multimedia platforms presents serious challenges to information credibility. In this paper, we propose a Debunk-and-Infer framework for Fake News Detection(DIFND) that leverages debunking knowledge to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Kaiying Yan , Moyang Liu , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Xuefei Liu

The proliferation of multi-modal fake news on social media poses a significant threat to public trust and social stability. Traditional detection methods, primarily text-based, often fall short due to the deceptive interplay between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Junhao He , Tianyu Liu , Jingyuan Zhao , Benjamin Turner

The increasing popularity of social media promotes the proliferation of fake news. With the development of multimedia technology, fake news attempts to utilize multimedia contents with images or videos to attract and mislead readers for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Peng Qi , Juan Cao , Tianyun Yang , Junbo Guo , Jintao Li

Previous studies on multimodal fake news detection have observed the mismatch between text and images in the fake news and attempted to explore the consistency of multimodal news based on global features of different modalities. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jun Li , Yi Bin , Jie Zou , Jie Zou , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang

Fake news detection has become a major task to solve as there has been an increasing number of fake news on the internet in recent years. Although many classification models have been proposed based on statistical learning methods showing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Daesoo Lee

Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost, easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume news from social media. On the other hand, it enables the wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kai Shu , Amy Sliva , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu

The growing availability of data about online information behaviour enables new possibilities for political communication research. However, the volume and variety of these data makes them difficult to analyse and prompts the need for…

Social media companies have struggled to provide a democratically legitimate definition of "Fake News". Reliance on expert judgment has attracted criticism due to a general trust deficit and political polarisation. Approaches reliant on the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-07 François t'Serstevens , Roberto Cerina , Giulia Piccillo

The present paper is about the participation of our team "techno" on CERIST'22 shared tasks. We used an available dataset "task1.c" related to covid-19 pandemic. It comprises 4128 tweets for sentiment analysis task and 8661 tweets for fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rabia Bounaama , Mohammed El Amine Abderrahim

We present an approach to detect fake news in Twitter at the account level using a neural recurrent model and a variety of different semantic and stylistic features. Our method extracts a set of features from the timelines of news Twitter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Bilal Ghanem , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Paolo Rosso

Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture. It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations. Using automatic machine learning classification models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kai Nakamura , Sharon Levy , William Yang Wang

Task-specific word identification aims to choose the task-related words that best describe a short text. Existing approaches require well-defined seed words or lexical dictionaries (e.g., WordNet), which are often unavailable for many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu , Yang Xiang

The rapid proliferation of fake news on social media threatens social stability, creating an urgent demand for more effective detection methods. While many promising approaches have emerged, most rely on content analysis with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Junwei Yin , Min Gao , Kai Shu , Wentao Li , Yinqiu Huang , Zongwei Wang

The emergence of social media as one of the main platforms for people to access news has enabled the wide dissemination of fake news. This has motivated numerous studies on automating fake news detection. Although there have been limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

The proliferation of fake news has had far-reaching implications on politics, the economy, and society at large. While Fake news detection methods have been employed to mitigate this issue, they primarily depend on two essential elements:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Guanghua Li , Wensheng Lu , Wei Zhang , Defu Lian , Kezhong Lu , Rui Mao , Kai Shu , Hao Liao

Fake news is risky since it has been created to manipulate the readers' opinions and beliefs. In this work, we compared the language of false news to the real one of real news from an emotional perspective, considering a set of false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Bilal Ghanem , Paolo Rosso , Francisco Rangel

With their advanced capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate highly convincing and contextually relevant fake news, which can contribute to disseminating misinformation. Though there is much research on fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rupak Kumar Das , Jonathan Dodge

Making disguise between real and fake news propagation through online social networks is an important issue in many applications. The time gap between the news release time and detection of its label is a significant step towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Maryam Ramezani , Mina Rafiei , Soroush Omranpour , Hamid R. Rabiee