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most citedA Survey of Fake News: Fundamental Theories, Detection Methods, and Opportunities

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cs.SI2025

Representing Higher-Order Networks with Spectral Moments

Hao Tian, Shengmin Jin, Reza Zafarani

The spectral properties of traditional (dyadic) graphs, where an edge connects exactly two vertices, are widely studied in different applications. These spectral properties are clo…

cs.SI2024★ 17 cited

Higher-Order Networks Representation and Learning: A Survey

Hao Tian, Reza Zafarani

Network data has become widespread, larger, and more complex over the years. Traditional network data is dyadic, capturing the relations among pairs of entities. With the need to m…

cs.SI2023★ 23 cited

Social network modeling and applications, a tutorial

Lisette Espín-Noboa, Tiago Peixoto, Fariba Karimi

Social networks have been widely studied over the last century from multiple disciplines to understand societal issues such as inequality in employment rates, managerial performanc…

cs.SI2022★ 1 cited

From Fake News to #FakeNews: Mining Direct and Indirect Relationships among Hashtags for Fake News Detection

Xinyi Zhou, Reza Zafarani, Emilio Ferrara

The COVID-19 pandemic has gained worldwide attention and allowed fake news, such as ``COVID-19 is the flu,'' to spread quickly and widely on social media. Combating this coronaviru…

cs.SI2022★ 31 cited

"This is Fake! Shared it by Mistake": Assessing the Intent of Fake News Spreaders

Xinyi Zhou, Kai Shu, Vir V. Phoha +2

Individuals can be misled by fake news and spread it unintentionally without knowing it is false. This phenomenon has been frequently observed but has not been investigated. Our ai…

cs.SI2020★ 3 cited

CHECKED: Chinese COVID-19 Fake News Dataset

Chen Yang, Xinyi Zhou, Reza Zafarani

COVID-19 has impacted all lives. To maintain social distancing and avoiding exposure, works and lives have gradually moved online. Under this trend, social media usage to obtain CO…

cs.SI2020★ 189 cited

ReCOVery: A Multimodal Repository for COVID-19 News Credibility Research

Xinyi Zhou, Apurva Mulay, Emilio Ferrara +1

First identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the outbreak of COVID-19 has been declared as a global emergency in January, and a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Or…

cs.SI2020★ 1 cited

Sentiment Paradoxes in Social Networks: Why Your Friends Are More Positive Than You?

Xinyi Zhou, Shengmin Jin, Reza Zafarani

Most people consider their friends to be more positive than themselves, exhibiting a Sentiment Paradox. Psychology research attributes this paradox to human cognition bias. With th…

cs.SI2019★ 17 cited

Network-based Fake News Detection: A Pattern-driven Approach

Xinyi Zhou, Reza Zafarani

Fake news gains has gained significant momentum, strongly motivating the need for fake news research. Many fake news detection approaches have thus been proposed, where most of the…

cs.SI2019★ 17 cited

The Role of User Profile for Fake News Detection

Kai Shu, Xinyi Zhou, Suhang Wang +2

Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. Social media appeals to users due to its fast dissemination of information, low cost, and easy access. However, s…