arXiv:2607. 11894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting disinformation narratives on social media is challenging due to the scale of amplification, rapid evolution, and linguistic variability of online content.
arXiv:2608. 02399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Content-based detection of unreliable news is increasingly difficult, as low-reliability sources mimic credible journalism and generative AI makes fabricated content harder to flag.
arXiv:2607.04962v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conspiracy theories commonly attribute important events to the actions of powerful and secretive actors. While computational research has largely f...
The paper introduces a three-tier evaluation framework—recovery, mining, and discovery—for unsupervised narrative label generation in disinformation datasets. It compares clustering-based and graph-community-based pipelines across seven datasets, finding that clustering can underrepresent prominent topics while graph methods produce many singletons that human annotators recognize as valid narratives. The authors release human-validated narrative candidate labels for the Climate Obstruction and PolyNarrative datasets to aid taxonomy development and dataset expansion.
arXiv:2208. 11582v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The wide spread of false information online, including misinformation and disinformation, has become a major problem for our highly digitised and globalised society.
The paper introduces an unsupervised framework that identifies and characterizes competing narratives in political discourse on social media, specifically analyzing German politicians' tweets. It uses a multi‑stage pipeline incorporating topic modeling, event detection, and event linking to form coherent stories and reveal distinct user community perspectives. Two case studies on polarizing issues demonstrate the method’s effectiveness in uncovering divergent viewpoints and framing conflicts around trending political topics.
arXiv:2608.20984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Narratives are central to how social communication is framed, making their detection critical for understanding and analysing public discourse. Prior...
arXiv:2609.36902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing multimodal fake news detection methods often introduce external information to assist detection. However, most of them rely on entity-level re...
arXiv:2602. 02838v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The detection of online influence operations -- coordinated campaigns by malicious actors to spread narratives -- has traditionally depended on content analysis or network features.
FakeSpotter is a new tool that estimates the viral misinformation risk of textual content by measuring structural fingerprints of misinformation instead of directly judging truthfulness. It operates across linguistic, narrative, logical, and critical‑thinking dimensions, using repeated large language model assessments and domain‑specific logistic regression classifiers for both short and long texts. In a labeled corpus of 764 texts, FakeSpotter achieved macro F1 scores of 0.788 for short texts and 0.793 for long texts, and its interpretive layer offers explainable outputs such as feature‑based scores, signal agreement, and a caution index for social listening.
The study examines how duplicate content is used to detect coordination in social media information operations. It distinguishes between generic, low‑information duplicates and non‑generic, more specific duplicates, labeling 187,000 tweets with an LLM‑assisted protocol and supervised classifiers. Results show that generic duplicates are rare with lexical matching but comprise nearly 39% of campaigns identified by embedding methods, and filtering out generic duplicates yields smaller, denser coordination graphs, indicating a more focused structure.
Propagation structures provide crucial evidence for fake news detection, yet existing approaches primarily rely on supervised GNN-based models, which require substantial labeled data and exhibit limit...
The study analyzes millions of German-language online articles and tweets from 2019–2022 to uncover political biases using automated text analysis. It finds that international events such as the COVID‑19 pandemic and the Ukraine war create thematic convergence between German and Swiss media, while domestic policy differences drive divergence in locally focused topics. Newspapers maintain more stable political content, whereas Twitter shows rapid, event‑driven spikes, illustrating how media platforms differ in intensity and timing.