Research Papers

@article{cao2025less,
  author  = {Cao, Zhaoyang and Nguyen, John and Zafarani, Reza},
  title   = {Is Less Really More? Fake News Detection with Limited Information},
  journal = {ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter},
  volume  = {27},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {20--31},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.1145/3748239.3748243}
}

@article{nanabala2024unmasking,
  author = {Nanabala, Chiradeep and Mohan, Chilukuri K. and Zafarani, Reza},
  title  = {Unmasking AI-Generated Fake News Across Multiple Domains},
  year   = {2024},
  note   = {Preprints},
  doi    = {10.20944/preprints202405.0686.v1}
}

@article{zhou2023linguistic,
  author  = {Zhou, Xinyi and Li, Jiayu and Li, Qinzhou and Zafarani, Reza},
  title   = {Linguistic-style-aware Neural Networks for Fake News Detection},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02792},
  year    = {2023}
}

@inproceedings{zhou2022intent,
  author    = {Zhou, Xinyi and Shu, Kai and Phoha, Vir V. and Liu, Huan and Zafarani, Reza},
  title     = {{This is Fake! Shared it by Mistake}: Assessing the Intent of Fake News Spreaders},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW '22)},
  year      = {2022}
}

@article{zhou2022hashtags,
  author  = {Zhou, Xinyi and Zafarani, Reza and Ferrara, Emilio},
  title   = {From Fake News to \#FakeNews: Mining Direct and Indirect Relationships among Hashtags for Fake News Detection},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11113},
  year    = {2022}
}

@article{yang2021checked,
  author  = {Yang, Chen and Zhou, Xinyi and Zafarani, Reza},
  title   = {CHECKED: Chinese COVID-19 Fake News Dataset},
  journal = {Social Network Analysis and Mining},
  volume  = {11},
  year    = {2021},
  doi     = {10.1007/s13278-021-00766-8}
}

@inproceedings{zhou2020safe,
  author    = {Zhou, Xinyi and Wu, Jindi and Zafarani, Reza},
  title     = {SAFE: Similarity-Aware Multi-Modal Fake News Detection},
  booktitle = {Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2020)},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  publisher = {Springer},
  pages     = {354--367},
  year      = {2020},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-47436-2_27}
}

@article{zhou2020early,
  author    = {Zhou, Xinyi and Jain, Atishay and Phoha, Vir V. and Zafarani, Reza},
  title     = {Fake News Early Detection: A Theory-driven Model},
  journal   = {Digital Threats: Research and Practice},
  volume    = {1},
  number    = {2},
  year      = {2020},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi       = {10.1145/3377478}
}

@article{zhou2020survey,
  author    = {Zhou, Xinyi and Zafarani, Reza},
  title     = {A Survey of Fake News: Fundamental Theories, Detection Methods, and Opportunities},
  journal   = {ACM Computing Surveys},
  volume    = {53},
  number    = {5},
  articleno = {109},
  numpages  = {40},
  year      = {2020},
  doi       = {10.1145/3395046}
}

@inproceedings{zhou2020recovery,
  author    = {Zhou, Xinyi and Mulay, Apurva and Ferrara, Emilio and Zafarani, Reza},
  title     = {ReCOVery: A Multimodal Repository for COVID-19 News Credibility Research},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information \& Knowledge Management (CIKM '20)},
  pages     = {3205--3212},
  year      = {2020},
  doi       = {10.1145/3340531.3412880}
}

@incollection{sitaula2020credibility,
  author    = {Sitaula, Niraj and Mohan, Chilukuri K. and Grygiel, Jennifer and Zhou, Xinyi and Zafarani, Reza},
  title     = {Credibility-based Fake News Detection},
  booktitle = {Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media},
  editor    = {Shu, Kai and Wang, Suhang and Lee, Dongwon and Liu, Huan},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2020}
}

@article{zhou2019network,
  author  = {Zhou, Xinyi and Zafarani, Reza},
  title   = {Network-based Fake News Detection: A Pattern-driven Approach},
  journal = {ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter},
  volume  = {21},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {48--60},
  year    = {2019},
  doi     = {10.1145/3373464.3373473}
}

@inproceedings{shu2019role,
  author    = {Shu, Kai and Zhou, Xinyi and Wang, Suhang and Zafarani, Reza and Liu, Huan},
  title     = {The Role of User Profiles for Fake News Detection},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '19)},
  pages     = {436--439},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1145/3341161.3342927}
}

@inproceedings{zhou2019interdisciplinary,
  author    = {Zhou, Xinyi and Zafarani, Reza},
  title     = {Fake News Detection: An Interdisciplinary Research},
  booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW '19)},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1145/3308560.3316476}
}

@inproceedings{zhou2019wsdm,
  author    = {Zhou, Xinyi and Zafarani, Reza and Shu, Kai and Liu, Huan},
  title     = {Fake News: Fundamental Theories, Detection Strategies and Challenges},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '19)},
  pages     = {836--837},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1145/3289600.3291382}
}

@inproceedings{zafarani2019fake,
  author    = {Zafarani, Reza and Zhou, Xinyi and Shu, Kai and Liu, Huan},
  title     = {Fake News Research: Theories, Detection Strategies, and Open Problems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining (KDD '19)},
  pages     = {3207--3208},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1145/3292500.3332287}
}