Combating the spread of fake news remains a difficult problem. For this reason, it is
increasingly urgent to understand the phenomenon of fake news. This review aims to see …

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 …

Sometimes, unverified information is disseminated as if it is true information on social media
sites. Most of the times, it goes viral and affects the belief of people and their emotions …

COVID-19 has affected all peoples' lives. Though COVID-19 is on the rising, the existence of
misinformation about the virus also grows in parallel. Additionally, the spread of …

We present a study on predicting the factuality of reporting and bias of news media. While
previous work has focused on studying the veracity of claims or documents, here we are …

The debate around fake news has grown recently because of the potential harm they can
have on different fields, being politics one of the most affected. Due to the amount of news …

Propaganda is a mechanism to influence public opinion, which is inherently present in
extremely biased and fake news. Here, we propose a model to automatically assess the …

The growing number of online open-access journals promotes academic exchanges, but the
prevalence of predatory journals is undermining the scholarly reporting process. Data …

A reasonable approach for fact checking a claim involves retrieving potentially relevant
documents from different sources (eg, news websites, social media, etc.), determining the …

We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and
Verification of Political Claims. In its starting year, the lab featured two tasks. Task 1 asked to …