Internet and social media have become a widespread, large scale and easy to use platform
for real-time information dissemination. It has become an open stage for discussion …

The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has
increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and …

The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to
democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are studying the …

Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and news gathering, its
unmoderated nature often leads to the emergence and spread of rumours, ie, items of …

The wide availability of user-provided content in online social media facilitates the
aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. However, the …

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored
ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information …

Massive amounts of misinformation have been observed to spread in uncontrolled fashion
across social media. Examples include rumors, hoaxes, fake news, and conspiracy theories …

Traditional fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume of
information that is now generated online. Computational fact checking may significantly …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

Social media aggregate people around common interests eliciting collective framing of
narratives and worldviews. However, in such a disintermediated environment misinformation …