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1. Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review

   Esma Aïmeur, Sabrine Amri, Gilles Brassard · 2023 · Social Network Analysis and Mining · 696 cites

   Online social networks (OSNs) are rapidly growing and have become a huge source of all kinds of global and local news for millions of users. However, OSNs are a double-edged sword. Although the great advantages they offer such as unlimited easy communication and instant news and information, they can also have many disadvantages and issues. One of their major challenging issues is the spread of fake news. Fake news identification is still a complex unresolved issue. Furthermore, fake news detection on OSNs presents unique characteristics and challenges that make finding a solution anything but trivial. On the other hand, artificial intelligence (AI) approaches are still incapable of overcomi

2. Teens’ Motivations to Spread Fake News on WhatsApp

   Paula Herrero-Diz, Jesús Conde-Jiménez, Salvador Reyes de Cózar · 2020 · Social Media + Society · 78 cites

   Younger people are exposed to misinformation that circulates rapidly on their mobile devices through instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp. Under the guise of news, an attractive format and outrage discourse, fake news appeal to their emotions by inviting them to distribute them impulsively. All of this is supported by a device—the mobile phone—in which the action of sharing is a matter of trust. Therefore, they are less likely to check a piece of content before resending it if it comes from a contact in their personal address book. To understand young people’s habits when receiving informative content through WhatsApp and the reasons why they choose to share it or not, this study

3. Fake News: Spread of Misinformation about Urological Conditions on Social Media.

   S. Loeb, Jacob Taylor, J. Borin, et al. · 2019 · European urology focus · 67 cites

   Although there is a large amount of user-generated content about urological health issues on social media, much of this content has not been vetted for information accuracy. In this article, we review the literature on the quality and balance of information on urological health conditions on social networks. Across a wide range of benign and malignant urological conditions, studies show a substantial amount of commercial, biased and/or inaccurate information present on popular social networking sites. The healthcare community should take proactive steps to improve the quality of medical information on social networks. PATIENT SUMMARY: In this review, we examined the spread of misinformation

4. SA-Bi-LSTM: Self Attention With Bi-Directional LSTM-Based Intelligent Model for Accurate Fake News Detection to Ensured Information Integrity on Social Media Platforms

   Wang Jian, Jian Ping Li, M. Akbar, et al. · 2024 · IEEE Access · 34 cites

   Detecting fake news is increasingly crucial in the digital age as social platforms and online news outlets amplify the spread of misinformation. This study proposes a novel approach for fake news detection using a Bi-LSTM neural network with an attention mechanism. The Bi-LSTM model’s ability to discern long-range relationships and sequential patterns in text data is augmented by the attention mechanism, focusing on key segments within the text to enhance discriminative power. The dataset for training comprises a diverse collection of news articles, meticulously annotated by human fact-checkers to include both real and fake news samples. Pre-processing steps, including tokenization, are unde

5. Concerns over the spread of misinformation and fake news on social media – challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic

   J. Leung, M. Schoultz, Vivian Chiu, et al. · 2021 · Proceedings of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health —Public Health Issues in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic · 15 cites

   The unfolding pandemic of COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, has caused challenges across the globe. Shelter-in-place, lock-down, and social distancing policies increased the use of social media for societies to stay connected. This study investigated psychological issues societies experienced from using social media among community during this critical period. Cross-sectional online surveys were used to collect qualitative data from 1991 respondents living in the UK, USA and Australia during April-May 2020 when shelter-in-place or stay-at-home policies were in place. The study found that the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories have caused psychosocial challenges and disconnec

6. Changing landscape of fake news research on social media: a bibliometric analysis

   Abdelkebir Sahid, Yassine Maleh, Karim Ouazzane · 2025 · Quality & Quantity · 7 cites

7. Can Correction Messages Reduce the Spread of Fake News on Social Media? The Impact of Information Updates on the Effectiveness of Corrections

   Kelvin K. King, Diego Escobari · 2025 · Journal of Management Information Systems · 6 cites

   ABSTRACT Although government agencies and fact-checking organizations issue correction messages to mitigate misinformation dissemination on social media, their efforts have been largely ineffective. Drawing on Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) and information extracted from over 84 million tweets, we examine the impact of correction messages and explore how different information updates affect their effectiveness. Our empirical approach differentiates between subpopulations of correction messages. The results support the existence of two distinct types: correction messages that significantly mitigate the spread of fake news—a 1 percent increase in “effective” messages decreases the sprea

8. Social media, misinformation and fake news in the pandemic: the dominant gaps and future research avenues

   Noel Nutsugah, K. Mensah, Raphael Odoom, et al. · 2024 · Online Inf. Rev. · 6 cites

   PurposeSocial networking sites have become breeding grounds for the spread of fake news and misinformation. At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the spread of fake news intensified, causing complications for health communicators by drowning authentic information from verifiable official sources. Looking at the impact of this growing phenomenon on people’s attitudes and behaviour during the pandemic, research in the area must be populated to help governments, supranational organisations, non-governmental organisations as well as civil society organisations to formulate policies to curb the menace. This study was therefore undertaken to unravel current gaps and future research avenues to em