Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of image credibility online

C Shen, M Kasra, W Pan, GA Bassett… - New media & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Fake or manipulated images propagated through the Web and social media have the
capacity to deceive, emotionally distress, and influence public opinions and actions. Yet few …

Seeing is believing: How people fail to identify fake images on the web

M Kasra, C Shen, JF O'Brien - Extended abstracts of the 2018 CHI …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The growing ease with which digital images can be convincingly manipulated and widely
distributed on the Internet makes viewers increasingly susceptible to visual misinformation …

Fighting cheapfakes: using a digital media literacy intervention to motivate reverse search of out-of-context visual misinformation

S Qian, C Shen, J Zhang - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As a significant source of misinformation, out-of-context visual misinformation refers to
visuals presented in an unrelated context. This study explores whether a digital media …

Understanding blind people's experiences with computer-generated captions of social media images

H MacLeod, CL Bennett, MR Morris… - proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Research advancements allow computational systems to automatically caption social media
images. Often, these captions are evaluated with sighted humans using the image as a …

Falling for fake news: investigating the consumption of news via social media

M Flintham, C Karner, K Bachour, H Creswick… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In the so called'post-truth'era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions,
and the rise of'fake news' disseminated via the internet and social media, individuals may …

” It Matches My Worldview”: Examining Perceptions and Attitudes Around Fake Videos

F Shahid, S Kamath, A Sidotam, V Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a qualitative study with 36 diverse social media users in India to critically
examine how low-resource communities engage with fake videos, including cheapfakes and …

Fake news on Facebook and Twitter: Investigating how people (don't) investigate

C Geeng, S Yee, F Roesner - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI conference …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With misinformation proliferating online and more people getting news from social media, it
is crucial to understand how people assess and interact with low-credibility posts. This study …

Predicting image credibility in fake news over social media using multi-modal approach

B Singh, DK Sharma - Neural Computing and Applications, 2022 - Springer
Social media are the main contributors to spreading fake images. Fake images are
manipulated images altered through software or by other means to change the information …

Combatting visual fake news with a professional fact-checking tool in education in France, Romania, Spain and Sweden

T Nygren, M Guath, CAW Axelsson, D Frau-Meigs - Information, 2021 - mdpi.com
Educational and technical resources are regarded as central in combating disinformation
and safeguarding democracy in an era of 'fake news'. In this study, we investigated whether …

“If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful”: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news

S Altay, E De Araujo, H Mercier - Digital Journalism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Why would people share news they think might not be accurate? We identify a factor that,
alongside accuracy, drives the sharing of true and fake news: the 'interestingness-if-true'of a …