The escalating prevalence of disinformation, or “fake news,” on social media platforms
represents a growing societal concern with far-reaching implications. Its ubiquitous …

Social networking websites are now considered to be the best platforms for the
dissemination of news articles. However, information sharing in social media platforms leads …

The widespread propagation of misinformation on social media platforms poses a significant
concern, prompting substantial endeavors within the research community to develop robust …

Accurate real-time risk identification is vital to protecting social media users from online
harm, which has driven research towards advancements in machine learning (ML). While …

Internet explosion and penetration have amplified the fake news problem that existed even
before Internet penetration. This becomes more of a concern, if the news is health-related …

Today, fake news is a growing concern due to its devastating impacts on communities. The
rise of social media, which many users consider the main source of news, has exacerbated …

Most approaches for text encoding rely on the attention mechanism, at the core of the
transformers architecture and large language models. The understanding of this mechanism …

In recent times, the widespread dissemination of misinformation through realistic artificially
generated images and deep faked videos has become a common issue, particularly …

Computational approaches to detect the online risks that the youth encounter have
presented promising potentials to protect them online. However, a major identified trend …

In this article, we analyze the spread of information on social media (Twitter) and purpose a
strategy based on epidemiological models. It is well known that social media represent a …