arXiv:2601. 14954v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social media increasingly disseminates information through mixed image text posts, but rumors often exploit subtle inconsistencies and forged content, making detection based solely on post content difficult.
By Han Li, Hua Sun
arXiv:2609.36850v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative content is increasingly entering the production and dissemination of news, transforming fake news from manually fabricated or simply manipul...
By Wenbin Shen, Guoxuan Qin, Guangxu Yao, Baodong Wang, Yuanbo Rui, Zhichao Lian
The paper investigates whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can generate and detect realistic multimodal fake news on social media. Using a multi‑agent framework—comprising a story agent, an image agent, and a critic agent—the authors produced over 9,000 paired multimodal news posts across science, health, and entertainment domains. They benchmarked 16 open‑ and closed‑source MLLMs for automated detection and found that most models fall far short of human accuracy, especially in identifying image authenticity, highlighting the need for stronger defenses against social media fake news.
By Jiyao Yang, Yang Liu, Zhenyue Qin, Qingyu Chen, Xiuzhen Zhang
arXiv:2607. 23493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated analysis of multimodal content on social networks has become a critical task for understanding public sentiment and information diffusion in the digital age.
By Musa Tur Farazi, Nufayer Jahan Reza
arXiv:2609.12678v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Short-video platforms have become a primary news source for the public, which has also enabled the widespread dissemination of fake news videos. We stu...
By Yifeng Luo, Yupeng Li, Ming Tang, Jianxiong Guo, Liang Lan
arXiv:2607. 02734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid growth in social media has transformed global communication by enabling fast information exchange, but it has also accelerated the spread of misinformation.
By Md. Maruf Bangabashi, Tahmid Hasan, Golam Mahmud, Md. Mostafijur Rahman, Md. Toufiqur Rahman, Jahanur Biswas
arXiv:2512.20257v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: With the rise of easily accessible generative tools for creating and manipulating multimedia content, the threat of realistic synthetic alterations...
By Daniele Cardullo, Simone Teglia, Irene Amerini
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...
By Wenbin Shen, Guoxuan Qin, Guangxu Yao, Baodong Wang, Yuanbo Rui, Zhongjie Ba, Zhichao Lian
arXiv:2608. 06732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent text-to-video (T2V) generation models enable fake news videos to be synthesized from scratch, shifting the threat beyond cheap fakes assembled from existing footage.
By Yifeng Luo, Yupeng Li, Liang Lan, Tian Wang
arXiv:2607. 16076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal sarcasm and cyberbullying detection remain challenging because the intended meaning often emerges from incongruity between textual and visual information rather than from either modality alone.
By Bhavana Verma, Priyanka Meel, Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma
arXiv:2608.23172v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of multimodal tasks. However, understanding humo...
By Abhilash Nandy, Rahul Seetharaman, Aman Bansal, Rounak Saha, Manav Nitin Kapadnis, Millon Madhur Das, Pawan Goyal, Niloy Ganguly
arXiv:2608. 08009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fake news increasingly relies on cross-modal image-text forgeries, making transparent and verifiable reasoning chains an urgent need for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation (DGM4).
By Yichun Yeh, Yiheng Li, Xiaobo Hu, Zhen Lei, Yang Yang