arXiv:2606. 04177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretable linguistic features offer a promising approach for explaining why a given text appears machine-generated, particularly for non-expert users.
By Yassir El Attar, Esra D\"onmez, Maximilian Maurer, Agnieszka Falenska
arXiv:2609.20838v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this study, we examine how modern LLMs generate and detect fake news under controlled settings across four manipulation scenarios. These are open-en...
By Zeynep \"Ozdemir, Murat Osmano\u{g}lu, Sevgi Yi\u{g}it-Sert, \"Omer \"Ozg\"ur Tanr{\i}\"over, Y{\i}lmaz Ar
arXiv:2601.03981v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: To efficiently combat the spread of LLM-generated misinformation in the news domain, we present RADAR, a Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversar...
By Song-Duo Ma, Yi-Hung Liu, Hsin-Yu Lin, Pin-Yu Chen, Hong-Yan Huang, Shau-Yung Hsu, Yun-Nung Chen
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.
By Giovanni Spitale, Federico Germani
The paper presents a theory-informed computational framework that converts cross-disciplinary theories of fake news into measurable features for automated detection and explanation. By reviewing theories from social sciences, psychology, economics, and more, the authors establish a broad theoretical foundation for computational modeling. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that theory-derived features are predictive, provide interpretable diagnostic signals, and that multi-feature models generally outperform individual features, though gains are modest.
By Zhaoyang Cao, Miriam Metzger, Reza Zafarani
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 article surveys fake review detection research, focusing on how pre‑trained language models (PLMs) and large language models (LLMs) influence both the generation of deceptive reviews and their detection. It reviews 211 studies from 2018 to early 2026, categorizing methods by evidence source—such as review text, sentiment, rating behavior, temporal metadata, user‑product graphs, multimodal content, external knowledge, and LLM‑generated signals—and by fusion level. The survey traces the evolution from traditional machine learning to PLM‑based and LLM‑based approaches, evaluates performance on Amazon, Yelp, and OpSpam benchmarks, and highlights open challenges including adversarial generation, cross‑domain transfer, uncertainty‑aware fusion, robustness to missing sources, interpretability, and trustworthy evaluation of AI‑generated deceptive content.
By Fanji Yang (Guizhou University of Finance and Economics), Huiyao Chen (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xi Yu (Guizhou University of Finance and Economics), Meishan Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiaohong Xiao (Guizhou University of Commerce), Mingsen Deng (Guizhou University of Finance and Economics)
CogniDir is an adaptive distributional learning framework designed to improve fake news detection against new psychologically grounded malicious comments generated by Large Language Models. It reframes robust detection as a dynamic data mixture optimization problem, using cognitive psychology to formalize adversarial paradigms and an information‑theoretic score to guide adaptive sampling of training data. Experiments on three benchmarks show that CogniDir achieves state‑of‑the‑art robustness, boosting F1 scores by up to 17.9% over existing baselines under heterogeneous AI‑generated attacks.
By Zhao Tong, Chunlin Gong, Yimeng Gu, Haichao Shi, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Xingcheng Xu, Xiao-Yu Zhang
arXiv:2609.15369v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Word-level detectors identify unedited AI-generated text almost perfectly, but the literature documents their brittleness under rewording, and a word-l...
By Jochen Madler (Sitefire)
arXiv:2607. 20444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can produce deceptive responses: outputs that mislead users in service of a contextually or experimentally induced goal.
By Ali Asad, Stephen Obadinma, Anshul Pattoo, Wenxuan Zhang, Xiaodan Zhu
arXiv:2603.15034v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This paper replicates and extends the system used in the AuTexTification shared task for authorship attribution of machine-generated texts. E...
By Adam Skurla, Dominik Macko, Jakub Simko
arXiv:2501. 14844v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting biases in the outputs produced by generative models is essential to reduce the potential risks associated with their application in critical settings.
By Erica Coppolillo, Giuseppe Manco, Luca Maria Aiello