Over the recent years, the growth of online social media has greatly facilitated the way
people communicate with each other. Users of online social media share information …

Recently, the use of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Sina Weibo has
become an inseparable part of our daily lives. It is considered as a convenient platform for …

Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both
information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore …

Social media has become a popular means for people to consume and share the news. At
the same time, however, it has also enabled the wide dissemination of fake news, that is …

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 …

As news reading on social media becomes more and more popular, fake news becomes a
major issue concerning the public and government. The fake news can take advantage of …

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 …

Representation Learning over graph structured data has received significant attention
recently due to its ubiquitous applicability. However, most advancements have been made …

Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost,
easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume …

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 …