Fake news detection on social media: A data mining perspective

K Shu, A Sliva, S Wang, J Tang, H Liu - ACM SIGKDD explorations …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Fighting post-truth using natural language processing: A review and open challenges

E Saquete, D Tomás, P Moreda… - Expert systems with …, 2020 - Elsevier
Post-truth is a term that describes a distorting phenomenon that aims to manipulate public
opinion and behavior. One of its key engines is the spread of Fake News. Nowadays most …

Combating fake news: A survey on identification and mitigation techniques

K Sharma, F Qian, H Jiang, N Ruchansky… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of fake news on social media has opened up new directions of research for
timely identification and containment of fake news and mitigation of its widespread impact on …

Declare: Debunking fake news and false claims using evidence-aware deep learning

K Popat, S Mukherjee, A Yates, G Weikum - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Misinformation such as fake news is one of the big challenges of our society. Research on
automated fact-checking has proposed methods based on supervised learning, but these …

Predicting factuality of reporting and bias of news media sources

R Baly, G Karadzhov, D Alexandrov, J Glass… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present a study on predicting the factuality of reporting and bias of news media. While
previous work has focused on studying the veracity of claims or documents, here we are …

A survey on stance detection for mis-and disinformation identification

M Hardalov, A Arora, P Nakov, I Augenstein - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Understanding attitudes expressed in texts, also known as stance detection, plays an
important role in systems for detecting false information online, be it misinformation …

That is a known lie: Detecting previously fact-checked claims

S Shaar, GDS Martino, N Babulkov, P Nakov - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The recent proliferation of" fake news" has triggered a number of responses, most notably
the emergence of several manual fact-checking initiatives. As a result and over time, a large …

Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! lab on detecting check-worthy claims, previously fact-checked claims, and fake news

P Nakov, G Da San Martino, T Elsayed… - Experimental IR Meets …, 2021 - Springer
We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs
of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to …

The CLEF-2021 CheckThat! lab on detecting check-worthy claims, previously fact-checked claims, and fake news

P Nakov, G Da San Martino, T Elsayed… - Advances in Information …, 2021 - Springer
We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Cross-Language
Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting various tasks related to …

Fighting the COVID-19 infodemic: Modeling the perspective of journalists, fact-checkers, social media platforms, policy makers, and the society

F Alam, S Shaar, F Dalvi, H Sajjad, A Nikolov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of
disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first …