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 proliferation of fake news on social media platforms poses significant challenges to
society and individuals, leading to negative impacts. As the tactics employed by purveyors of …

False or unverified information spreads just like accurate information on the web, thus
possibly going viral and influencing the public opinion and its decisions. Fake news and …

The widespread propagation of numerous rumors and fake news have seriously threatened
the credibility of microblogs. Previous works often focused on maintaining the previous state …

Social media has become a part of our day-to-day life and has become one of the significant
sources of information. Most of the information available on social media is in the form of …

Fake news, malicious rumors, fabricated reviews, generated images and videos, are today
spread at an unprecedented rate, making the task of manually assessing data veracity for …

Prior manual studies of rumours suggested that crowd stance can give insights into the
actual rumour veracity. Even though numerous studies of automatic veracity classification of …

With the continued development of social networks, the spreading of information has
become faster than ever. Consequently, this has resulted in a problem with the reliability of …

The ubiquitous nature of social media platforms resulted into generation of large amount of
multimedia data in social networks. The openness and unrestricted way to share the …

Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are
very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and …