4 papers
Fake News Theories: Harnessing Disciplinary Insights for Computational Modeling, Detection, and Explanation
Zhaoyang Cao, Miriam Metzger, Reza Zafarani
Disinformation research has produced increasingly accurate automated fake-news detectors, but many systems remain difficult to interpret and are weakly connected to established the…
When Does Demographic Information Help? Data and Modeling Regimes for Perspective-Aware Hate Speech Detection
Weibin Cai, Reza Zafarani
Demographic information is often used to model annotator perspectives in subjective tasks such as hate speech detection, but its benefit is inconsistent: it improves performance in…
Analyzing Memory Effects in Large Language Models through the lens of Cognitive Psychology
Zhaoyang Cao, Lael Schooler, Reza Zafarani
Memory, a fundamental component of human cognition, exhibits adaptive yet fallible characteristics as illustrated by Schacter's memory "sins".These cognitive phenomena have been st…
Is Less Really More? Fake News Detection with Limited Information
Zhaoyang Cao, John Nguyen, Reza Zafarani
The threat that online fake news and misinformation pose to democracy, justice, public confidence, and especially to vulnerable populations, has led to a sharp increase in the need…