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Spread & networksDatasets & evaluation Friends as Sensors: High-Sensitivity Monitoring of Misinformation and Platform Dynamics via the Friendship ParadoxThe friendship paradox—a network property where a user's friends are, on average, better connected than the user themselves—enables high-sensitivity monitoring of misinformation on Twitter/X. Comparing ~27 million tweets from randomly selected users to ~31 million from accounts those users retweet (the "sensors"), the authors find: (1)… Angermaier et al. · arXiv · 2026

Bots & coordinated campaignsSpread & networks Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Network-Based Detection of Coordinated Disinformation Campaigns on TelegramA graph-based methodology discovers coordinated disinformation campaigns on Telegram by analyzing message-sharing patterns rather than content, requiring only structural relationships. The authors identified 55 disinformation channels and over 86,000 identical message chains spanning multiple channels, revealing a highly synchronized… Tsagkarakis et al. · SECRYPT · 2026

Spread & networksPsychology & interventions Conspiracy and Environment Communities on Reddit Sort Along Different Demographic AxesConspiracy and environmental communities on Reddit exhibit distinct demographic sorting mechanisms. Conspiracy communities show upstream sorting—users self-segregate by gender and partisanship before entry through ideologically-aligned information environments. Sánchez-Cortés et al. · arXiv · 2026

Platforms, policy & societyDeepfakes & multimodal Drowning in AI Slop: How Social Media Platforms (Do Not) Label AI and Deepfake Content under EU lawThis paper conducts a legally grounded empirical audit of AI-labeling practices across Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube, testing how well platforms comply with EU legal obligations to label AI-generated and deepfake content. Using uploads of content generated by 10 generative AI tools, the authors find that platforms labeled only 36 of… Rijsbosch et al. · arXiv · 2026

LLMs & generative AIFact-checking & verification VEX-Bench: Benchmarking Verification Complexity of LLM-Generated MisinformationThis paper introduces VEX-Bench, a unified benchmark for evaluating how difficult it is to verify LLM-generated misinformation. The benchmark measures verification complexity across five dimensions: checkability (whether claims can be checked), harm significance, source credibility signals, impostor legitimacy, and verification cost. Huang et al. · NeurIPS 2026, Track on Evaluations and Datasets · 2026

LLMs & generative AIPsychology & interventions AI-Enabled Human Memory Manipulation: Misleading AI-Generated Summaries Distort Human MemoryLarge language models frequently generate erroneous summaries of videos, including critical omissions and hallucinated details. In a human-subjects experiment, participants who read AI-generated summaries containing misleading information were significantly less likely to accurately recall the original event—demonstrating that AI… Sim et al. · arXiv · 2026

Bots & coordinated campaignsDatasets & evaluation Setting the clock: Evaluating temporal window parameters for coordinated behavior detectionThe paper systematically evaluates how temporal window parameters (length and stride) affect detection of coordinated communities in co-repost networks. Using 14 labeled information operation datasets, the authors find that window length is a central modeling parameter: short windows (seconds to minutes) detect tight, highly synchronized… Panayiotou et al. · AIDEM Workshop, ECML-PKDD 2026 · 2026

Fact-checking & verificationLLMs & generative AI To Trust or Not to Trust: Retrieval-Augmented Fact Checking in SpeechLarge Audio Language Models (LALMs) exhibit a significant text-speech modality gap: they verify written claims reliably but fail on spoken ones, even from the same model. The paper introduces VeriSpeak, a benchmark of 3,879 spoken claims with temporal, geographical, and relational facts, and demonstrates that retrieval-augmented LALMs… Mazumder et al. · arXiv · 2026

Spread & networksPlatforms, policy & society Why Does Misinformation Propagate Faster? An Algorithmic Perspective on XMisinformation propagates faster on X due to an "engagement fungibility mechanism" in the platform's score-aggregation layer: fast engagement signals (likes, retweets) are treated as interchangeable evidence of quality with slow signals (replies, quotes), allowing low-credibility content that draws disproportionately from instant… Li & Gao · arXiv · 2026

Fact-checking & verificationLLMs & generative AI SoK: Formal Methods for Fact-Checking and Information IntegrityThis systemization of knowledge surveys formal methods (logic, model checking, theorem proving, symbolic reasoning) applied to fact-checking systems. The authors organize 121 works by assurance level and identify two critical gaps: constructing checkable claims and correcting errors in published verdicts. Kekatos et al. · arXiv · 2026

Deepfakes & multimodalDatasets & evaluation VietPrism: A Large-Scale Vietnamese Speech and Deepfake Corpus with Diverse Dialects and Code-SwitchingVIETPRISM is a large-scale Vietnamese speech dataset combining 993.4 hours of bona fide utterances from 1,262 speakers with 3.1K hours of synthetically generated speech from four deepfake systems. The dataset uniquely provides transcripts, dialect annotations, speaker identities, and natural Vietnamese–English code-switching coverage. Hoang & Le · arXiv · 2026

Spread & networksPlatforms, policy & society Strategic Opinion Manipulation in Multiplex NetworksThis paper models how agents strategically manipulate consensus when opinions are aggregated across multiple platforms or channels. By analyzing the resulting game as a DeGroot-like process on merged layers with strategic misreporting costs, the authors show that merging layers dilutes manipulation by default—but can amplify it through… Ebrahimi & Franceschetti · arXiv · 2026

Spread & networksPlatforms, policy & society Two Fault Lines: Latent Polarity Geometry in X Community NotesX's Community Notes system assumes disagreement is one-dimensional (left/right politics) to decide when notes should be published via a "bridging" mechanism. This paper shows the space is actually two-dimensional: the first axis captures political polarization, while a second axis independently captures disagreement on topics like… Andreou & Sirivianos · arXiv · 2026

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Making AI-Assisted Claims Independently Challengeable: Publication Authority and a Protocol for Falsifiable Publication RecordsAI-assisted claims can appear authoritative even when evidence, analysis, and authorization refer to different states—creating a coordination problem. This work introduces Publication Authority (PA) as a non-transferable, single-use capability governing publication transitions, and proposes PAC-2026 SF-4, an executable specification… Tiltack et al. · arXiv · 2026

Platforms, policy & societySpread & networks Control-Theoretic Content ModerationContent moderation at the platform level requires balancing multiple competing objectives (reducing harmful content, preserving engagement, maintaining activity). This paper formulates platform-level moderation as a feedback control problem with a multi-objective loss function, proposes control-theoretic moderators (including… Tessa et al. · arXiv · 2026

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society A Multi-Stage Agentic Framework for Effective Counter-Narrative Generation and RefinementCounter-narratives are a scalable defense against misinformation and hate speech, but manual authoring is slow and labor-intensive. This paper proposes a multi-stage agent-based framework using LLMs to generate and iteratively refine counter-narratives on pro-Russian misinformation about Ukraine. Kronfeld et al. · arXiv · 2026

Spread & networksPsychology & interventions How neighbourhood ideology shapes misinformation belief in densely tied social networksPrior work decouples ideological bias and social influence when modeling misinformation propagation; this paper integrates them through an agent-based contagion model that distinguishes an individual's ideological intensity from a claim's ideological alignment. Simulation and analytical results show that in densely clustered… Karimi et al. · arXiv · 2026

Psychology & interventionsSpread & networks Unifying Models of Intergroup Hostility in Online DiscourseHostile rhetoric toward outgroups in online discourse can be modeled through six mechanisms (boundary construction, threat construction, scapegoating, negative evaluation, dehumanization, action orientation) whose structural and temporal relationships were previously understood separately through competing theoretical frameworks. By… Gerard et al. · arXiv · 2026

LLMs & generative AIDatasets & evaluation Counter-GEO-Bench: Evaluating Defenses Against Information-Distorting Generative Engine OptimizationAdversaries exploit Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to craft web documents containing targeted false claims that rank highly in LLM-generated search results. This paper introduces Counter-GEO-Bench, a benchmark of 247 human-verified query-document pairs, evaluates existing guardrails (all ineffective), and proposes C-GEO Guard, a… Zheng et al. · arXiv · 2026

Detection methodsLLMs & generative AI Lazy Grounding: Attacking Search Agents with Factual EvidenceRetrieval-augmented search agents fail to robustly distinguish between evidence for the current question and evidence for semantically nearby questions. By injecting factually correct documents supporting a neighboring question into the search corpus, agents often misapply this evidence to answer the original question, achieving accuracy… Zhang et al. · arXiv · 2026

Fact-checking & verificationDatasets & evaluation CoVer: Conflict-Aware Claim VerificationSocial media fact-checking frequently encounters conflicting evidence where different sources support or refute a claim. This paper proposes CoVer, a framework that explicitly resolves evidence-level conflicts (contradictory stances from different sources) and aggregation-level conflicts (sub-claims within complex claims yielding… Zhang et al. · arXiv · 2026

Detection methodsPsychology & interventions A Multi-Branch Feature Fusion Approach for Health Misinformation Detection and PropagationThe paper presents a multi-branch fusion framework for detecting and characterizing health misinformation on social media, grounded in psychological theories (Elaboration Likelihood Model and Theory of Planned Behaviour). The model fuses transformer embeddings with rhetorical, stance, and theory-motivated linguistic features in a unified… Sikosana et al. · IEEE Access · 2026

Spread & networksLLMs & generative AI One AI Signal, Many Human Judgments: A Bayesian Cascade Analysis of AI-based Credibility Indicators in Online Information SpreadSocial media platforms increasingly deploy AI-based credibility indicators to help users judge misinformation. This paper extends classical Bayesian cascade models to treat AI credibility signals as a shared public signal seen by all users, then derives a critical "Gateway" threshold: above it, AI predictions dominate the public record;… Lu et al. · arXiv · 2026

Bots & coordinated campaignsSpread & networks Social bots weaken activist cohesionSocial bots during protest peaks weaken the human relational infrastructure of activism. Analyzing 2.5M tweets from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, the authors show that networks more exposed to bot infiltration suffered steeper declines in human cohesion (triadic closure and edge density) after the peak, with effects concentrated… Li et al. · arXiv · 2026