The paper presents an agentic framework for detecting conspiratorial content in social media by inferring the speaker’s intent rather than merely identifying explicit claims. It leverages social context and adaptive tool use, demonstrating superior performance over text-only and non-agentic models on a large Hebrew tweet dataset spanning election cycles and the COVID pandemic. The study highlights the importance of context-aware, reasoning-driven approaches for accurate conspiracy detection.
By Lior Biton, Oren Tsur
arXiv:2608.30311v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Social media platforms increasingly use AI-based credibility indicators to help users judge misinformation. Unlike individual human-AI decision-makin...
By Zhuoran Lu, Weilong Wang, Yangyang Yu, Xinru Wang, Zhuoyan Li, Zhiwei Liu, Sophia Ananiadou
arXiv:2601. 05232v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most people now get their news from videos on social media, such as YouTube and Facebook, rather than through curated journalism.
By P. Gilda (Columbia University), P. Dungarwal (Columbia University), A. Thongkham (Columbia University), E. T. Ajayi (St John's University), S. Choudhary (Columbia University), T. M. Terol (Columbia University), C. Lam (Columbia University), J. P. Araujo (Columbia University), M. McFadyen-Mungalln (Columbia University), L. S. Liebovitch (Columbia University), P. T. Coleman (Columbia University), H. West (Columbia University), K. Sieck (Toyota Research Institute), S. Carter (Toyota Research Institute)
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
arXiv:2606. 04199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing use of large language models has raised concerns about the spread of AI-generated fake news, particularly under varying prompting strategies.
By Aya Vera-Jimenez, Samuel Jaeger, Calvin Ibenye, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh
arXiv:2608. 09510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting machine-generated disinformation on social media is increasingly difficult as large language models (LLMs) make it easier to generate and rewrite misleading content at scale.
By Kevin Thomas, Milosz Kasprzyk, Reuel C Igbokwe Onuigbo, Elliott Pert, Cameron Tovey, Jo\~ao A. Leite, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Carolina Scarton
arXiv:2505.21710v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This study evaluates the effectiveness of ChatGPT, an advanced AI model for natural language processing, in identifying targeting and inappropriate...
By Baran Barbarestani, Isa Maks, Piek Vossen
arXiv:2610.03077v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Propaganda detection is an essential task in natural language processing (NLP), particularly in the context of manipulative political communications. H...
By Claudiu Creanga, Ioachim Lihor, Liviu P. Dinu
arXiv:2608. 05183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This dissertation analysed and discussed the differences in linguistic characteristics between pre-mortem and post-mortem social media content, and reported machine learning (ML) classifiers that achieved high performance in automatically detecting deaths of social networking site users from posts associated with their profiles.
By Nuhu Ibrahim, Riza Batista-Navarro
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.
By Raphaela Ke{\ss}ler, Roman David Ventzke, Viola Priesemann, Giordano De Marzo
The paper investigates why misinformation spreads more quickly on engagement‑based platforms by dissecting the recommendation algorithm of X. It identifies an engagement fungibility mechanism that rewards instant reactions (likes, retweets) over thoughtful engagement (replies, quotes), allowing misinformation—which tends to attract instant reactions—to receive more recommendations. The authors validate this mechanism through a simulation on the USC X 2024 election corpus, showing that adjusting metric weights has little effect, while requiring thoughtful engagement before amplification can significantly reduce the credibility exposure gap without harming mainstream content or engagement.
By Pan Li, Shuang Gao
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)