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Actual fake news.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/russia-us-news-media-disinformation-campaign-00512173

Jaydon Blue rips 'fake article' claiming Cowboys staff has work ethic concerns https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jaydon-blue-rips-fake-article-claiming-dallas-cowboys-work-ethic-concerns

Prompt-Induced Linguistic Fingerprints for LLM-Generated Fake News Detection
Chi Wang, Min Gao, Zongwei Wang, Junwei Yin, Kai Shu, Chenghua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12632 …

Prompt-Induced Linguistic Fingerprints for LLM-Generated Fake News Detection
With the rapid development of large language models, the generation of fake news has become increasingly effortless, posing a growing societal threat and underscoring the urgent need for reliable detection methods. Early efforts to identify LLM-generated fake news have predominantly focused on the textual content itself; however, because much of that content may appear coherent and factually consistent, the subtle traces of falsification are often difficult to uncover. Through distributional di…

White House rips into 'fake' NBC News report that Trump only 'obliterated' one of three Iran nuclear targets | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14915671/white-house-nbc-report-trump-iran-nuclear-targets.html

Trump says he will sue the WSJ and Rupert Murdoch over a story alleging he sent a racy letter to Jeffrey Epstein and claims he warned them the letter was "fake" (Irie Sentner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/17/trump…

I remember vividly when the Fediverse immediately used the fake news about an alleged #Israel​i airstrike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on 17 October 2023 as evidence for an ongoing genocide.
Wondering what the conclusion from the #Iran​ian airstrike on

Iranian missile strikes hit Israeli hospital
Israel is targeted by new Iranian missile strikes with several hits, among them, the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. Israel earlier reportedly attacked a key heavy-water research reactor in Khondab. DW has more.

Jeder Dritte ist schon auf Fake News hereingefallen
Viele Bürger sind nach eigenen Angaben schon Falschnachrichten auf den Leim gegangen. Und die Dunkelziffer könnte einer Umfrage zufolge noch höher liegen.
https://www.…

"Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151624

A Dynamic Knowledge Update-Driven Model with Large Language Models for Fake News Detection
Di Jin, Jun Yang, Xiaobao Wang, Junwei Zhang, Shuqi Li, Dongxiao He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11687

A Dynamic Knowledge Update-Driven Model with Large Language Models for Fake News Detection
As the Internet and social media evolve rapidly, distinguishing credible news from a vast amount of complex information poses a significant challenge. Due to the suddenness and instability of news events, the authenticity labels of news can potentially shift as events develop, making it crucial for fake news detection to obtain the latest event updates. Existing methods employ retrieval-augmented generation to fill knowledge gaps, but they suffer from issues such as insufficient credibility of …

ABQ mayoral candidate campaigns on fake education, experience and made-up prior elected office - City Desk ABQ https://citydesk.org/2025/08/14/albuquerque-mayoral-candidate-makes-false-claims-echoing-george-santos-scandal/ …

Echoing George Santos, ABQ mayoral candidate campaigns on fake education, experience and made-up prior elected office - City Desk ABQ
(c) City Desk ABQ. Republication is available by request to kevin@newmexico.news According to his campaign website, Albuquerque mayoral candidate Patrick B. Sais graduated from UNM with a degree in political science, was elected to the Albuquerque City Council and earned endorsements from a local business owner, firefighter and educator in his campaign for Albuquerque mayor.  […]

A news station, real enough for the US DoD to have someone on it, was knowingly using Grok-generated images without labelling them as such.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/media/oan-gaetz-ai-images-women-military-kingsley-wilson

A Trump-favored MAGA network praised an increase in women soldiers. Its images were fake
The images of female soldiers appear to have been generated using Elon Musk’s Grok.

Broncos broadcast claims Parsons wants to play in Denver, but the quote never happened https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/17/cowboys-edge-micah-parsons-involved-i…

Sam Altman: Social Media seit KI-Bots fühle sich fake an
Der OpenAI-CEO wundert sich offenbar über die Auswirkungen von KI auf das Internet und vor allem auf soziale Netzwerke.
https://www.

🗞️ Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
#news

Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds
Consuming news on social media is often associated with "doom scrolling," where people spend excessive time online consuming negative news. However, researchers have found that this same behavior, when leveraged effectively, can help foster a well-informed society.

The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including "malicious cyber actor" Song Kum Hyok (Magdalena Del Valle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A group of major European media organisations has launched ChatEurope - a chatbot aimed at combating online disinformation.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2025/european-media-consortium-launches-anti-disinformation-chat…

European media consortium launches Euro chatbot to counter fake news
A group of major European media organisations has launched ChatEurope - a chatbot aimed at combating online disinformation.

MM-FusionNet: Context-Aware Dynamic Fusion for Multi-modal Fake News Detection with Large Vision-Language Models
Junhao He, Tianyu Liu, Jingyuan Zhao, Benjamin Turner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05684

MM-FusionNet: Context-Aware Dynamic Fusion for Multi-modal Fake News Detection with Large Vision-Language Models
The proliferation of multi-modal fake news on social media poses a significant threat to public trust and social stability. Traditional detection methods, primarily text-based, often fall short due to the deceptive interplay between misleading text and images. While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) offer promising avenues for multi-modal understanding, effectively fusing diverse modal information, especially when their importance is imbalanced or contradictory, remains a critical challenge.…

Exploring Content and Social Connections of Fake News with Explainable Text and Graph Learning
V\'itor N. Louren\c{c}o, Aline Paes, and Tillman Weyde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10040

Exploring Content and Social Connections of Fake News with Explainable Text and Graph Learning
The global spread of misinformation and concerns about content trustworthiness have driven the development of automated fact-checking systems. Since false information often exploits social media dynamics such as "likes" and user networks to amplify its reach, effective solutions must go beyond content analysis to incorporate these factors. Moreover, simply labelling content as false can be ineffective or even reinforce biases such as automation and confirmation bias. This paper proposes an expl…

A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election
in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.
Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023,
tho…

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

Fake CNN and BBC sites used to push investment scams https://therecord.media/news-websites-faked-to-spread-investment-scams

Mining the Social Fabric: Unveiling Communities for Fake News Detection in Short Videos
Haisong Gong, Bolan Su, Xinrong Zhang, Jing Li, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Liang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07992

Mining the Social Fabric: Unveiling Communities for Fake News Detection in Short Videos
Short video platforms have become a major medium for information sharing, but their rapid content generation and algorithmic amplification also enable the widespread dissemination of fake news. Detecting misinformation in short videos is challenging due to their multi-modal nature and the limited context of individual videos. While recent methods focus on analyzing content signals-visual, textual, and audio-they often overlook implicit relationships among videos, uploaders, and events. To addre…

In Zeiten von Fake News und Klimawandel-Leugnern kann man nur froh sein, dass es noch aufrechte Wissenschaftler gibt, die sich nicht mundtot machen lassen.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7-h0zKgJkBk&si=rbXw3ad8twO7jUQO

Offenbar lässt sich Elon Musks Chatbot #Grok dazu bringen, explizite Videos bekannter Personen wie Taylor Swift zu generieren. Fake-News sind damit Tür und Tor geöffnet. Setzen die Ersteller einer KI der Software keine Grenzen, kann die Erstellung von Inhalten schnell ausarten. Der Chatbot fiel bereits mit einer Vorliebe für rechtsextreme und antisemitische Inhalte auf
Taylor Swift: Elon Musk…

Taylor Swift: Elon Musks KI erstellt Nacktvideos der Sängerin
Offenbar lässt sich Elon Musks Chatbot dazu bringen, explizite Videos von Personen wie Taylor Swift zu generieren. Fake-News sind damit Tür und Tür geöffnet.

»Post-Fakten-Ära — Wie rechte Kanäle und prorussische Netzwerke mit Fake News Feuer legen:
Die jüngste Eskalation im spanischen Torre Pacheco zeigte erneut das schreckliche Potenzial von Falschinformationen. Ein Umstand, mit dem der rechte Rand die EU ins Wanken bringen möchte«
Dies nicht seit heute und war schon immer im Web, doch es nimmt nun durch Russland massiv zu.
👉

Wie rechte Kanäle und prorussische Netzwerke mit Fake News Feuer legen
Die jüngste Eskalation im spanischen Torre Pacheco zeigte erneut das schreckliche Potenzial von Falschinformationen. Ein Umstand, mit dem der rechte Rand die EU ins Wanken bringen möchte

Having a national science agency just making up fake science news with the "help" of "AI" tells you all you need to know about the value that science has. 🤦
«CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes»
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/30/csiro-posts-ai-fake-climate-article-with-made-up-quotes/

Newfoundland's 10-Year Education Report Calling For Ethical AI Use Contains Over 15 Fake Sources - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/239214/newfoundlands-10-year-education-report-calling-for-ethical-ai-use-contains-over-15-fake-sources

An internet hoaxer claims responsibility for creating fake freelance journalist Margaux Blanchard, whose AI-generated articles were published by six outlets (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/ai-hoaxer-a-fake-x-accou…

AI hoaxer, a fake X account and the case of Margaux Blanchard
Who is Margaux Blanchard? Her true identity remains unclear despite the emergence of an AI hoaxer claiming responsibility.

Regarding proscribed organisations.
I imagine there are many people who remember UK ministers telling the public that the intelligence used to justify the Iraq invasion couldn't be disclosed, but if they knew it they'd support the descision.
And then, more than a decade later, people got to hear some of it and it was nonsense.

Fake Spy Based WMD Reports On Action Movie
The agent's claims were taken seriously until he gave himself away with his description of poisonous gases in glass containers.

Millionenstrafe wegen Fake-Rabatten für Shein in Frankreich
Preisnachlass oder Mogelpackung? Französische Kontrolleure fanden bei etlichen Shein-Produkten Ungereimtheiten bei Rabatten. Das Unternehmen soll nun zahlen.

„Zerstört Existenzen“ - Hoteliers fordern Strafen für Fake-Bewertungen #News #Nachrichten

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

🍃 Fake grass is greener but is it worse for the environment?
#lawns

Fake grass is greener but is it worse for the environment?
From the front yards of West Miami-Dade to the waterfront mansions of Fort Lauderdale, artificial turf is appearing more and more.

Despite having beencriticized by civil rights groups for using
"cell site simulators" (Stingrays) during the last Trump administration,
ICE continues to use the technology.
Earlier this year, new media publication Straight Arrow News said it had
“mobile network anomalies” around a Washington state protest against ICE raids that were consistent with Stingray use.
Forbes found contract records showing ICE purchased nearly
$1 million worth of “cell s…

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones
ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

Dolphins OL Aaron Brewer calls out Bears for 'fake physicality' in joint practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-ol-aaron-brewer-…

Signs of the times
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5k0ny6p2wo
@…

A Sign Of Humour: The mystery behind Glasgow's fake street signs
A self-proclaimed guerilla artist based in Glasgow is covering the city in parody street signs.

@… ist das wahr oder fake news? dachte ameisen haben schlechte augen, eher hell dunkel, und regeln das in welt zurecht finden, vor allem über gerüche? #ameisen #biologie

Are LLMs Enough for Hyperpartisan, Fake, Polarized and Harmful Content Detection? Evaluating In-Context Learning vs. Fine-Tuning
Michele Joshua Maggini, Dhia Merzougui, Rabiraj Bandyopadhyay, Ga\"el Dias, Fabrice Maurel, Pablo Gamallo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07768

Are LLMs Enough for Hyperpartisan, Fake, Polarized and Harmful Content Detection? Evaluating In-Context Learning vs. Fine-Tuning
The spread of fake news, polarizing, politically biased, and harmful content on online platforms has been a serious concern. With large language models becoming a promising approach, however, no study has properly benchmarked their performance across different models, usage methods, and languages. This study presents a comprehensive overview of different Large Language Models adaptation paradigms for the detection of hyperpartisan and fake news, harmful tweets, and political bias. Our experimen…

Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/…

Social Web Foundation
Towards a bigger, better fediverse

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Desinformation und #Mythen gefährden unsere Demokratie und verblöden unsere #Kinder.
Stärke Deine

Medienkompetenz stärken: Fake-News erkennen und Tipps zum Prüfen von Quellen
Lerne, wie Du Fake-News erkennst und seriöse Quellen prüfst. Faktencheck leicht gemacht!

Marco Rubio impostor reportedly using AI to contact multiple senior officials
According to a state department cable seen by the Washington Post, the impostor sent fake voice messages and texts that mimicked Rubio’s voice and writing style to targets including three foreign ministers, a US governor and a member of Congress.
The cable, dated 3 July, said the impostor “left voicemails on Signal for at least two targeted individuals” and sent text messages inviting others to communi…

Eine aktuelle Studie der IU Internationale Hochschule in Erfurt zeigt jetzt: Jeder dritte Deutsche ist schon einmal auf politische Falschnachrichten hereingefallen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10631433?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon…

Dac-Fake: A Divide and Conquer Framework for Detecting Fake News on Social Media
Mayank Kumar Jain, Dinesh Gopalani, Yogesh Kumar Meena, Nishant Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16223

Dac-Fake: A Divide and Conquer Framework for Detecting Fake News on Social Media
With the rapid evolution of technology and the Internet, the proliferation of fake news on social media has become a critical issue, leading to widespread misinformation that can cause societal harm. Traditional fact checking methods are often too slow to prevent the dissemination of false information. Therefore, the need for rapid, automated detection of fake news is paramount. We introduce DaCFake, a novel fake news detection model using a divide and conquer strategy that combines content and…

Proof the army thinks birds are real.
Army tests robotic coyotes to defend fighter jets
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/07/07/army-tests-robotic-coyotes-to-defend-fighter-jets/

"The National Park Service announced Tuesday the rollout of a new annual body-dumping pass for use on federal lands" #Burgum #TheOnion

Die Deutschen sind Digital-Profis – zumindest beim Katzenvideo posten. Doch wenn’s ums Erkennen von Fake News, Urheberrecht oder Passwörterraten geht, sieht’s düster aus. Initiative D21 nennt das „Digital Skills Gap“. Man könnte auch sagen: Bedienung top, Verständnis flop.
➡️ https://initiatived21.de/publikatione…

Digital Skills Gap
Digitale Spaltung neu vermessen: Kompetenzen im Lebenslagenvergleich

Den här artikeln berör annat än hälsofrågor men problemet är precis det samma. Använd inte AI för att få svar på mer kontroversiella frågor där du inte kan något sen tidigare. För allt för ofta så ger den dig påhittade svar samtidigt som det låter väldigt självsäkert.
AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’

AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’
ChatGPT and Grok absorb fake news and regurgitate it when asked. Due to their design, these models and their competitors are highly susceptible to disinformation

Russia-linked group spoofing European journalists to spread disinformation https://therecord.media/russia-group-spoofing-journalists-disinfo

A researcher found 88 TikTok accounts that used AI-generated versions of Jorge Ramos and other Spanish-language journalists to spread misinformation for profit (Nicole Acevedo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/fake-ai-vide…

What's behind the TikTok accounts using AI-generated versions of real Latino journalists?
The accounts point to the challenge of stopping or controlling the surge in fake images and misinformation targeting Spanish-speakers in the U.S., as AI technology advances.

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
Ji Qi, Xinchang Zhang, Dingqi Ye, Yongjia Ruan, Xin Guo, Shaowen Wang, Haifeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20599

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence is producing fake remote sensing imagery (RSI) that is increasingly difficult to detect, potentially leading to erroneous intelligence, fake news, and even conspiracy theories. Existing forgery detection methods typically rely on single visual features to capture predefined artifacts, such as spatial-domain cues to detect forged objects like roads or buildings in RSI, or frequency-domain features to identify artifacts from up-sampling …

Bridging Thoughts and Words: Graph-Based Intent-Semantic Joint Learning for Fake News Detection
Zhengjia Wang, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang, Beizhe Hu, Juan Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01660

Bridging Thoughts and Words: Graph-Based Intent-Semantic Joint Learning for Fake News Detection
Fake news detection is an important and challenging task for defending online information integrity. Existing state-of-the-art approaches typically extract news semantic clues, such as writing patterns that include emotional words, stylistic features, etc. However, detectors tuned solely to such semantic clues can easily fall into surface detection patterns, which can shift rapidly in dynamic environments, leading to limited performance in the evolving news landscape. To address this issue, thi…

"Resources to demystify fake news and misinformation"
https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2025.2519020
– closed access, unfortunately ... 🙄

FakeSV-VLM: Taming VLM for Detecting Fake Short-Video News via Progressive Mixture-Of-Experts Adapter
Junxi Wang, Yaxiong Wang, Lechao Cheng, Zhun Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19639

FakeSV-VLM: Taming VLM for Detecting Fake Short-Video News via Progressive Mixture-Of-Experts Adapter
We present FakeSV-VLM in this paper, a new VLM-based framework for detecting fake news on short video platforms. Despite significant efforts to combat this issue due to the severe threat that fake news videos pose to public information security, existing methods still fall short in detection accuracy, often due to lack of knowledge to verify the news is real or not. However, large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have absorbed extensive real-world knowledge from massive multimodal datasets. Motiva…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/2]:
- HSFN: Hierarchical Selection for Fake News Detection building Heterogeneous Ensemble
Sara B. Coutinho, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Francimaria R. S. Nascimento, George D. C. Cavalcanti

(For release)
Attention Media: Today, I completely OBLITERATED a hot fudge sundae.
Said me earlier, "It was really bad. It was devastating. It's obliterated. Like, you can’t get to the nuts & sprinkles. I think we all had a great victory here.”
Any claims otherwise is fake news.

Ist Foto ein Fake? - Hier marschiert ein Bär auf Tiroler Wanderweg #News #Nachrichten

Contesting fake news
Daniel Rehsmann, B\'eatrice Roussillon, Paul Schweinzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19837 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19837

Contesting fake news
We model competition on a credence goods market governed by an imperfect label, signaling high quality, as a rank-order tournament between firms. In this market interaction, asymmetric firms jointly and competitively control the aggregate precision of a label ranking the competitors' qualities by releasing individual information. While the labels and the aggregated information they are based on can be seen as a public good guiding the consumers' purchasing decisions, individual firms have incen…

CleanNews: a Network-aware Fake News Mitigation Architecture for Social Media
Maria-Diana Cotelin, Ciprian-Octavian Truic\u{a}, Elena-Simona Apostol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04489

CleanNews: a Network-aware Fake News Mitigation Architecture for Social Media
With the widespread use of the internet and handheld devices, social media now holds a power similar to that of old newspapers. People use social media platforms for quick and accessible information. However, this convenience comes with a variety of risks. Anyone can freely post content, true or false, with the probability of remaining online forever. This makes it crucial to identify and tackle misinformation and disinformation on online platforms. In this article, we propose CleanNews, a comp…

Rechte haben ein kindisches Faible für Flaggen, Fackeln, Feinde, Flüchtlinge, Fake News und so weiter.
Da hat wohl jemand die wehenden Fahnen der #Nazis mit Hakenkreuz als Vorbild vor Augen.
Man sollte sich zweimal überlegen, wem man welches Gebäude verkauft.
#AfD

Bützow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Großer Bahnhof für die AfD
Wer mit dem Zug zwischen Rostock und Schwerin unterwegs ist, passiert einen Kleinbahnhof, der seit Kurzem AfD-Optik trägt. Fahrgäste sind schockiert, der Eigentümer des Gebäudes sieht den »Bürgerwillen« repräsentiert, die Bahn zeigt sich machtlos.

Nach dem Wiedersehen mit Staffel 1 von Designated Survivor bleibt ein bitterer Nachgeschmack – der Plot klingt inzwischen wie ein Blick in aktuelle Nachrichten: Inländischer Extremismus, Fake News und Machtkämpfe im Weißen Haus. Ein Politthriller als Spiegel unserer Zeit. #USA #Trump

Designated Survivor: Wenn Realität die Fiktion einholt
Nach dem Wiedersehen mit Staffel 1 von Designated Survivor bleibt ein bitterer Nachgeschmack – der Plot klingt inzwischen wie ein Blick in aktuelle Nachrichten: Inländischer Extremismus, Fake News …

Vollständig gefälschte CPUs jetzt auch als "Ryzen 9800X3D"
In den USA ist ein Fake von AMDs Topseller aufgetaucht, der nach bekanntem Muster hergestellt wurde und mangels Dies funktionslos ist.

HSFN: Hierarchical Selection for Fake News Detection building Heterogeneous Ensemble
Sara B. Coutinho, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Francimaria R. S. Nascimento, George D. C. Cavalcanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21482

HSFN: Hierarchical Selection for Fake News Detection building Heterogeneous Ensemble
Psychological biases, such as confirmation bias, make individuals particularly vulnerable to believing and spreading fake news on social media, leading to significant consequences in domains such as public health and politics. Machine learning-based fact-checking systems have been widely studied to mitigate this problem. Among them, ensemble methods are particularly effective in combining multiple classifiers to improve robustness. However, their performance heavily depends on the diversity of …

Nächste Fake-Klinik - Falsche Ärztin gab sich einfach als „Putzfrau“ aus #News #Nachrichten

Thirteen newsroom leaders and ethicists discuss elements of journalistic ethics, including dealing with AI, anonymous leaks, bias, lies, and audience needs (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/thirteen-journ

Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics 
We asked newsroom leaders and ethicists what they’re keeping or changing in an era of Trump, “fake news,” AI, and industry decline.

SEER: Semantic Enhancement and Emotional Reasoning Network for Multimodal Fake News Detection
Peican Zhu, Yubo Jing, Le Cheng, Bin Chen, Xiaodong Cui, Lianwei Wu, Keke Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13415

SEER: Semantic Enhancement and Emotional Reasoning Network for Multimodal Fake News Detection
Previous studies on multimodal fake news detection mainly focus on the alignment and integration of cross-modal features, as well as the application of text-image consistency. However, they overlook the semantic enhancement effects of large multimodal models and pay little attention to the emotional features of news. In addition, people find that fake news is more inclined to contain negative emotions than real ones. Therefore, we propose a novel Semantic Enhancement and Emotional Reasoning (SE…

FAKE NEWS
STOP DESCRIBING PEOPLE THAT DON'T EXIST!
#parody

A Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework for Evolving Fake News Generation and Detection
Chong Tian, Qirong Ho, Xiuying Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19633 https://

A Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework for Evolving Fake News Generation and Detection
Rapid LLM advancements heighten fake news risks by enabling the automatic generation of increasingly sophisticated misinformation. Previous detection methods, including fine-tuned small models or LLM-based detectors, often struggle with its dynamically evolving nature. In this work, we propose a novel framework called the Symbolic Adversarial Learning Framework (SALF), which implements an adversarial training paradigm by an agent symbolic learning optimization process, rather than relying on nu…

Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media
Mahmoud Fawzi, Bj\"orn Ross, Walid Magdy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07845 h…

Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media
Misinformation is a growing concern in a decade involving critical global events. While social media regulation is mainly dedicated towards the detection and prevention of fake news and political misinformation, there is limited research about religious misinformation which has only been addressed through qualitative approaches. In this work, we study the spread of fabricated quotes (Hadith) that are claimed to belong to Prophet Muhammad (the prophet of Islam) as a case study demonstrating one …

Trump macht Politik zur Reality Show, die EU duckt sich vor US-Konzernen, Berater suchen im KI-Zeitalter nach ihrer Daseinsberechtigung und die SPD verliert weiter an Boden. Michel Friedman kritisiert den Begriff "Protestwähler" : Wer AfD wählt, gibt denen Macht, die die Republik zerstören wollen. Auch Im Journalismus: Wir brauchen die alte, liberale Mitte jenseits der Filterblasen, Deep Fakes, Fake News und Hassbotschaften.

Fractal Social Dynamics as a Driver of Consensus and Inequality
Airton Deppman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13849 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Fractal Social Dynamics as a Driver of Consensus and Inequality
Human social behavior is organized in stratified, hierarchical networks, with a support group with about 5 members, expanding proportionally at each layer up to a maximum of approximately 150 frequent interactions per individual. This is known as Social Brain Hypothesis, and its findings are supported by psychological and neurological evidence. The fractal network framework provides valuable insights into social phenomena such as the spread of fake news and the development of technology. This s…

I don't care that it's printed in the Radio Times, this has got to be fake news. Debbie Harry is not, can not be, an 80-year-old woman.
#DebbieHarry #Blondie #70sMusic #80sMusic #TOTP

LLM-based Contrastive Self-Supervised AMR Learning with Masked Graph Autoencoders for Fake News Detection
Shubham Gupta, Shraban Kumar Chatterjee, Suman Kundu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18819

LLM-based Contrastive Self-Supervised AMR Learning with Masked Graph Autoencoders for Fake News Detection
The proliferation of misinformation in the digital age has led to significant societal challenges. Existing approaches often struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, complex semantic relations, and the social dynamics influencing news dissemination. Furthermore, these methods require extensive labelled datasets, making their deployment resource-intensive. In this study, we propose a novel self-supervised misinformation detection framework that integrates both complex semantic relations …

The White House removes WSJ from the pool of reporters covering Trump's trip to Scotland, says it is due to WSJ's "fake and defamatory conduct" (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/journal-removed-white-house-pool-ep…

Verhasster Vorgänger - Trump verbreitet Fake-Video von Obama im Gefängnis #News #Nachrichten

AI Generated Text Detection Using Instruction Fine-tuned Large Language and Transformer-Based Models
Chinnappa Guggilla, Budhaditya Roy, Trupti Ramdas Chavan, Abdul Rahman, Edward Bowen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05157

AI Generated Text Detection Using Instruction Fine-tuned Large Language and Transformer-Based Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) possess an extraordinary capability to produce text that is not only coherent and contextually relevant but also strikingly similar to human writing. They adapt to various styles and genres, producing content that is both grammatically correct and semantically meaningful. Recently, LLMs have been misused to create highly realistic phishing emails, spread fake news, generate code to automate cyber crime, and write fraudulent scientific articles. Additionally, in many…

Wo früher recherchiert, wird heute frisiert: Laut Volksverpetzer verbreiten etablierte Medien wie Schwäbische Zeitung, Cicero & Berliner Zeitung immer häufiger Desinformation im Dienste von Rechtsruck, Profit und persönlicher Agenda. Pressefreiheit heißt nicht Fake-News-Freiheit
- Volksverpetzer https://www.

Diese 5 einst seriösen Medien verbreiten jetzt Desinformation
Wer die gefährlichste Desinformation nur auf Telegram oder Twitter sucht, und auch etablierte Medien außer Acht lässt, begeht einen Fehler. Fünf Beispiele von einst seriösen Medien, die immer häufiger in die Desinformation abdriften.

Was bitte hat eine Handelsvereinbarung mit der Regulierung von Hass, Hetze und illegalen Inhalten auf antisozialen Plattformen zu tun? Ach so, ja, bei den antisozialen Plattformen geht es natürlich auch um Geld – nur um Geld. Die machen Geld auch aus Fake-News, Hass, Hetze und Betrug. Der #DSA würde diese Gewinnquellen austrocknen. | „Deal“ oder Erpressung? | @…

"Wen wollen Sie im Schwimmbad keinesfalls antreffen, Herbert Kickl oder eine*n junge*n Vater/Mutter aus Syrien?"
Das dema Meinungsforschungsinstitut hat eine Umfrage durchgeführt – nachdem die FPÖ Fake News über einen Wunsch nach "ausländerfreien Schwimmbädern" verbreitete.
#FPÖ #Österreich #Kickl #HerbertKickl #AutPol #AtPol #Meinungsumfrage