Synthetic media—so-called deep fakes—have captured the imagination of some and struck
fear in others. Although they vary in their form and creation, deep fakes refer to text, image …

Governments, public health authorities, and social media platforms have employed various
measures to counter misinformation that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The …

Generative AI systems produce a range of risks. To ensure the safety of generative AI
systems, these risks must be evaluated. In this paper, we make two main contributions …

While deepfake has emerged as a severe issue in the multimedia environment, most studies
examined text-based false claims, leaving the question of what unique features of video …

Short video platforms have become an important channel for news sharing, but also a new
breeding ground for fake news. To mitigate this problem, research of fake news video …

Today's political misinformation has increasingly been created and consumed in visual
formats, such as photographs, memes, and videos. Despite the ubiquity of visual media and …

The fake news “infodemic”, facilitated by social media and mobile message sharing
platforms, has progressed from causing a nuisance to seriously impacting law and order …

Disinformation has been regarded as a key threat to democracy. Yet, we know little about
the effects of different modalities of disinformation, or the impact of disinformation …

In the trend of the accelerated progression of communication network technology, the
emergence of virtual communities (VCs), virtual societies (VSs), metaverse, and other …

This review aims (a) to investigate the motivations to share fake news on Social Media
Platforms (SMPs) according to the Self-Determination Theory (SDT);(b) to identify the …