arXiv:2606. 07651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional fake news detection methods are falling behind as multimodal misinformation grows more advanced, seamlessly blending deceptive text, manipulated visuals, and factually incorrect claims.
By Kevin Patel, Shashi Bhushan Jha
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: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:2607. 03981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Memes have become influential communication tools on social media, combining viral visuals with concise messaging to convey impactful ideas.
By Fatema Tuj Johora Faria, Mukaffi Bin Moin, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Pronay Debnath, Asif Iftekher Fahim, Faisal Muhammad Shah
Hateful memes are a growing form of multimodal online harm, where hostile intent is often conveyed through the joint interpretation of images, text, cultural references, and implicit targets. While hateful meme detection has advanced in high-resource languages, Arabic remains underexplored, with existing meme resources focusing mainly on propaganda or coarse harmful-content labels.
arXiv:2606. 03066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid rise of generative AI has made multimodal fake news increasingly realistic and pervasive, posing severe threats to public trust and social stability.
By Jinjie Shen, Yaxiong Wang, Yujiao Wu, Lechao Cheng, Tianrui Hui, Nan Pu, Zhihui Li, Zhun Zhong
arXiv:2601. 11178v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social media platforms are increasingly dominated by long-form multimodal content, where harmful narratives are constructed through a complex interplay of audio, visual, and textual cues.
By Girish A. Koushik, Helen Treharne, Diptesh Kanojia
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:2405. 17838v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Socio-linguistic indicators of affectively-relevant phenomena, such as emotion or sentiment, are often extracted from text to better understand features of human-computer interactions, including on social media.
By Keith Burghardt, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Chyna Tang, Anne Pisor, Kristina Lerman
arXiv:2606. 14780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clickbait content on video-sharing platforms poses a significant challenge to information reliability, yet progress in automated detection has been constrained by the lack of large-scale, high-quality multimodal datasets.
By Md. Minhazul Islam, Md. Tanbeer Jubaer, Amith Khandakar, Shovon Sarker, Sumaiya Rahman, Md. Masum Mia, Mohamed Arselene Ayari, Hamed Noori
Social media videos often communicate meanings that go beyond their visible actions, captions, or speech. A mundane clip may become humorous, ironic, or satire only through the interaction of multimodal cues and cultural context, making such content a difficult test case for video-language models.
arXiv:2608. 16201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment polarity and intensity from heterogeneous inputs such as text, audio, and vision.
By Shanshan Lin, Yuesheng Wu, Chao Chen, Yizhe Yang, Zhihao Chen, Zexian Yang, Xiangwen Liao