arXiv AI
4d ago

Can Multimodal Large Language Models Generate and Detect Multimodal Social Media Fake News?

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 AI
Sep 17

Reasoning through Evolution: Automatic Meta-path Discovery for LLM-based Fake News Detection

The paper introduces MAGER, a multi-agent genetic evolution framework that automatically discovers meta-paths for large language models (LLMs) to reason about fake news propagation graphs. By compressing complex propagation structures into informative subgraphs, MAGER reduces modality mismatch and information overload, enabling frozen LLMs to perform structure-aware veracity reasoning. The authors also propose a graph in-context learning strategy that retrieves semantically and structurally similar demonstrations to enhance classification and reasoning, and report that MAGER significantly improves LLM performance in data‑efficient settings.

By Ziyi Zhou, Xiaoming Zhang, Hui Pang, Yuting Zhang, Tiesunlong Shen, Bingyu Yan, Erik Cambria, Litian Zhang