Spread of misinformation on social media: What contributes to it and how to combat it

S Chen, L Xiao, A Kumar - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
With the prevalence and increasing impact of misinformation on social media, numerous
studies have explored the characteristics of misinformation. However, we lack a holistic …

Mapping the deepfake landscape for innovation: A multidisciplinary systematic review and future research agenda

L Whittaker, R Mulcahy, K Letheren, J Kietzmann… - Technovation, 2023 - Elsevier
Deepfakes are an emerging communication innovation possessing vast implications for
innovation scholarship. A systematic literature review of multidisciplinary literature was …

Visual mis-and disinformation, social media, and democracy

V Dan, B Paris, J Donovan… - Journalism & Mass …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The spread of mis-and disinformation is an increasing concern for democratic societies
around the globe (Lazer et al., 2019). In modern high-choice media environments, exposure …

Fretal: Generalizing deepfake detection using knowledge distillation and representation learning

M Kim, S Tariq, SS Woo - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
As GAN-based video and image manipulation technologies become more sophisticated and
easily accessible, there is an urgent need for effective deepfake detection technologies …

[HTML][HTML] The social impact of deepfakes

JT Hancock, JN Bailenson - Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
In many ways, this special issue was inspired by a visit to the University of Washington in
2018. Seitz and his colleagues had just published the algorithms1 that enabled their now …

Factors influencing fake news rebuttal acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic and the moderating effect of cognitive ability

X Wang, F Chao, G Yu, K Zhang - Computers in human behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Fake news is spreading rapidly on social media and poses a serious threat to the COVID-19
outbreak response. This study thus aims to reveal the factors influencing the acceptance of …

Are deepfakes concerning? analyzing conversations of deepfakes on reddit and exploring societal implications

D Gamage, P Ghasiya, V Bonagiri, ME Whiting… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deepfakes are synthetic content generated using advanced deep learning and AI
technologies. The advancement of technology has created opportunities for anyone to …

[HTML][HTML] Social media news use and COVID-19 misinformation engagement: survey study

S Ahmed, ME Rasul - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Social media is widely used as a source of news and information regarding
COVID-19. However, the abundance of misinformation on social media platforms has raised …

Are you a cyborg, bot or human?—a survey on detecting fake news spreaders

W Shahid, Y Li, D Staples, G Amin, S Hakak… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the major components of Societal Digitalization is Online social networks (OSNs).
OSNs can expose people to different popular trends in various aspects of life and alter …

[HTML][HTML] Do deepfake videos undermine our epistemic trust? A thematic analysis of tweets that discuss deepfakes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

J Twomey, D Ching, MP Aylett, M Quayle, C Linehan… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Deepfakes are a form of multi-modal media generated using deep-learning technology.
Many academics have expressed fears that deepfakes present a severe threat to the …