There has been increasing concern with the growing infusion of misinformation, or “fake
news”, into public discourse and politics in many western democracies. Our article first …

Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners have all called attention to the issue of
misinformation in the climate change debate. But what is climate change misinformation …

Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an 'infodemic'. Fake news and rumors
are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm. This is further …

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 …

Misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic proliferated widely on social media platforms
during the course of the health crisis. Experts have speculated that consuming …

Influence Maximization (IM), which selects a set of k users (called seed set) from a social
network to maximize the expected number of influenced users (called influence spread), is a …

In the current era, people and society have grown increasingly reliant on artificial
intelligence (AI) technologies. AI has the potential to drive us towards a future in which all of …

False information can be created and spread easily through the web and social media
platforms, resulting in widespread real-world impact. Characterizing how false information …

The rapid spread of online misinformation poses an increasing risk to societies worldwide.
To help counter this, we developed a 'fake news game'in which participants are actively …

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 …