3 papers
cs.LG2026
A Multi-Branch Feature Fusion Approach for Health Misinformation Detection and Propagation
Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
This paper presents a multi-branch fusion framework for detecting and characterising the propagation of health misinformation in online social networks (OSNs). Grounded in the Elab…
cs.CL2026
BERTopic-Virality Prioritisation: A Scalable Framework for Thematic and Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 and Monkeypox Misinformation on Twitter
Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
Health misinformation circulating during pandemics can gain traction rapidly, creating harmful narratives that compete with public health guidance. Most topic-modelling pipelines t…
cs.SI2026
Integrating Persuasion Theory into the Epidemiological Modelling of Health Misinformation Spread on Social Media
Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
This study presents a hybrid epidemiological and behavioural framework to simulate the spread of health misinformation on social media. We extend the classical Susceptible--Infecte…