Combating health misinformation in social media: Characterization, detection, intervention, and open issues

C Chen, H Wang, M Shapiro, Y **ao, F Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022‏ - arxiv.org
Social media has been one of the main information consumption sources for the public,
allowing people to seek and spread information more quickly and easily. However, the rise …

Multi-modal misinformation detection: Approaches, challenges and opportunities

S Abdali, S Shaham, B Krishnamachari - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
As social media platforms evolve from text-based forums into multi-modal environments, the
nature of misinformation in social media is also transforming accordingly. Taking advantage …

A duo-generative approach to explainable multimodal covid-19 misinformation detection

L Shang, Z Kou, Y Zhang, D Wang - … of the ACM Web Conference 2022, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
This paper focuses on a critical problem of explainable multimodal COVID-19
misinformation detection where the goal is to accurately detect misleading information in …

LFTK: Handcrafted features in computational linguistics

BW Lee, JHJ Lee - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.15878, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Past research has identified a rich set of handcrafted linguistic features that can potentially
assist various tasks. However, their extensive number makes it difficult to effectively select …

A multimodal framework for the identification of vaccine critical memes on Twitter

U Naseem, J Kim, M Khushi, AG Dunn - Proceedings of the Sixteenth …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Memes can be a useful way to spread information because they are funny, easy to share,
and can spread quickly and reach further than other forms. With increased interest in COVID …

Multimodal analysis of disinformation and misinformation

A Wilson, S Wilkes, Y Teramoto… - Royal Society Open …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The use of disinformation and misinformation campaigns in the media has attracted much
attention from academics and policy-makers. Multimodal analysis or the analysis of two or …

A Domain Adaptive Graph Learning Framework to Early Detection of Emergent Healthcare Misinformation on Social Media

L Shang, Y Zhang, Z Yue, YJ Choi, H Zeng… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - ojs.aaai.org
A fundamental issue in healthcare misinformation detection is the lack of timely resources
(eg, medical knowledge, annotated data), making it challenging to accurately detect …

[HTML][HTML] A multilingual dataset of COVID-19 vaccination attitudes on Twitter

N Chen, X Chen, J Pang - Data in Brief, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Vaccine hesitancy is considered as one main cause of the stagnant uptake ratio of COVID-
19 vaccines in Europe and the US where vaccines are sufficiently supplied. A fast and …

[HTML][HTML] Ensemble Techniques for Robust Fake News Detection: Integrating Transformers, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning

M Al-Alshaqi, DB Rawat, C Liu - Sensors, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The proliferation of fake news across multiple modalities has emerged as a critical challenge
in the modern information landscape, necessitating advanced detection methods. This study …

A Knowledge-driven Domain Adaptive Approach to Early Misinformation Detection in an Emergent Health Domain on Social Media

L Shang, Y Zhang, Z Yue, YJ Choi… - 2022 IEEE/ACM …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on an important problem of early misinformation detection in an
emergent health domain on social media. Current misinformation detection solutions often …