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Deepfakes & multimodalDatasets & evaluation VLDBench: Evaluating Multimodal Disinformation with Regulatory AlignmentVLDBench is the first large-scale human-verified benchmark for multimodal disinformation detection, comprising 31,339 news articles paired with images across 13 topical categories. Evaluation of 9 LLMs and 10 VLMs shows vision-language models substantially outperform text-only baselines (e.g., LLaMA-3.2-11B-Vision: 74.82% accuracy), but… Raza et al. · arXiv · 2025

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods E-FreeM2: Efficient Training-Free Multi-Scale and Cross-Modal News Verification via MLLMsE-FreeM2 is a training-free, retrieval-based multimodal system for out-of-context (OOC) misinformation detection that leverages pretrained vision-language models (MLLMs) and two-stage chain-of-thought reasoning. By dynamically retrieving cross-modal evidence and ranking via visual similarity, the method achieves 90.0% overall accuracy on… Phan et al. · SCID '25 · 2025

Detection methodsDatasets & evaluation Neighborhood-Order Learning Graph Attention Network for Fake News DetectionProposes NOL-GAT (Neighborhood-Order Learning Graph Attention Network), a GNN architecture that allows each node to adaptively select its optimal hop-neighborhood at each layer, bypassing the fixed L-hop limitation of conventional message-passing GNNs. Evaluated on five fake news datasets, NOL-GAT outperforms baseline GNN methods,… Lakzaei et al. · arXiv · 2025

Detection methodsDatasets & evaluation A Decision-Based Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network for Multi-Class Fake News DetectionProposes DHGAT (Decision-based Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network), a semi-supervised method for six-class fake news classification on the LIAR dataset. Unlike standard GNNs that apply uniform neighborhood aggregation, DHGAT models news as heterogeneous graphs with multiple edge types derived from speaker profiles and enables each… Lakzaei et al. · arXiv · 2025

Deepfakes & multimodalLLMs & generative AI Synergizing LLMs with Global Label Propagation for Multimodal Fake News DetectionThis paper proposes Global Label Propagation Network with LLM-based Pseudo Labeling (GLPN-LLM), a framework for multimodal fake news detection that integrates LLM-generated pseudo labels with label propagation via graph neural networks. A mask-based global label propagation mechanism prevents label leakage during training while enabling… Hu et al. · arXiv · 2025

Detection methodsLLMs & generative AI Is Less Really More? Fake News Detection with Limited InformationSLIM (Systematically-selected Limited Information) replaces full news article text with strategically chosen subsets — extracted keywords, POS/NER sequence tags, or textual metadata — to address the computational cost and data-sparsity limitations of full-text fake news detection. Information-theoretic measures (normalized Shannon… Cao et al. · arXiv · 2025 Detection methodsLLMs & generative AI Propasafe: A BERT-based offline tool for propaganda detectionOriginal privacy-focused, offline browser extension using fine-tuned BERT on the Propaganda Techniques Corpus for sentence-level propaganda classification. No online inference required; binary classification (propaganda or non-propaganda). Sharma et al. · ACM Web Conference 2025 · 2025 LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Controlled Change(Stub page — referenced in context of GenAI adoption in journalism. To be expanded with full paper details.) Dodds · 2024

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods DELL: Generating Reactions and Explanations for LLM-Based Misinformation DetectionLarge language models struggle with factuality and hallucinations in misinformation detection. DELL proposes a three-stage pipeline where LLMs generate synthetic user reactions from diverse perspectives, create explanations for proxy tasks (sentiment, framing, propaganda tactics), and merge predictions from task-specific experts. Wan et al. · arXiv · 2024

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World DataThis paper presents the first comprehensive taxonomy of generative AI misuse tactics grounded in 191 real-world documented incidents (January 2023–March 2024). The authors identify two broad categories—exploitation of GenAI capabilities and compromise of GenAI systems—with 18 distinct tactics. Marchal et al. · arXiv · 2024

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods RAIDAR: Generative AI Detection via RewritingThis paper introduces Raidar, a method to detect machine-generated text by measuring how much LLMs modify text when asked to rewrite it. The key observation is that LLMs tend to preserve AI-generated text and modify human-written text more when rewriting. Mao et al. · ICLR · 2024

LLMs & generative AIDatasets & evaluation Advancing Graph Representation Learning with Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey of TechniquesThis comprehensive survey analyzes the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Graph Representation Learning (GRL), breaking down the design space into two primary components—knowledge extractors and organizers—plus operation techniques for integration and training. The work provides a novel taxonomy for understanding how LLMs… Mao et al. · arXiv · 2024

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods TELLER: A Trustworthy Framework For Explainable, Generalizable and Controllable Fake News DetectionTELLER proposes a dual-system framework for fake news detection that combines LLM-driven cognition (decomposing content into yes/no questions) with a neural-symbolic decision system (learning interpretable rules). The approach prioritizes explainability, generalizability, and human controllability, achieving 76% accuracy on GossipCop and… Liu et al. · arXiv · 2024

Psychology & interventionsLLMs & generative AI From Skepticism to Acceptance: Simulating the Attitude Dynamics Toward Fake NewsThis paper introduces FPS, an LLM-based agent simulation framework that models how individuals' opinions on fake news evolve through social interactions. Each agent has personality traits, dual memory (short- and long-term), and reasoning capabilities. Liu et al. · arXiv · 2024

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models: What Is Said and How It Is SaidThis paper proposes a two-tiered framework for measuring political bias in LLM-generated content, separating bias into what is said (content bias) and how it is said (style/framing bias). Using extreme anchor comparison and frame analysis on 11 open-source LLMs across 14 politically divisive topics, the authors find that models exhibit… Bang et al. · arXiv · 2024

Deepfakes & multimodalDetection methods Exposing the Deception: Uncovering More Forgery Clues for Deepfake DetectionThis paper proposes a framework for deepfake detection that extracts both local and global forgery clues by decomposing facial features into disentangled local representations. Using mutual information theory to ensure comprehensive yet non-overlapping feature extraction, the method achieves state-of-the-art results on five benchmark… Ba et al. · arXiv · 2024

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods Can LLM-Generated Misinformation Be Detected?LLM-generated misinformation (from ChatGPT, Llama, Vicuna) is detectably harder for both humans and automated detectors to identify than human-written misinformation with identical semantics. The paper builds a taxonomy of LLM-generated misinformation across types, domains, and generation methods, then empirically demonstrates that… Chen & Shu · ICLR 2024 · 2024

LLMs & generative AI A Survey of Large Language ModelsThis comprehensive survey reviews the evolution of large language models (LLMs) from statistical language models through pre-trained models to contemporary transformer-based LLMs. The authors examine four major dimensions: pre-training strategies, parameter-efficient adaptation methods, utilization approaches (prompting and in-context… Zhao et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language ModelsDespite alignment training, modern language models can be induced to generate harmful content via automatically-discovered adversarial suffixes. The authors propose Greedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG) search, which generates a single universal suffix that transfers across multiple models and prompts with high success rates (88% on… Zou et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDatasets & evaluation How Do Large Language Models Capture the Ever-changing World Knowledge? A Review of Recent AdvancesThis survey reviews methods for aligning large language models with ever-changing world knowledge without retraining from scratch. The authors systematically categorize approaches as either implicit (modifying LLM parameters directly via knowledge editing or continual learning) or explicit (augmenting LLMs with external resources via… Zhang et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIDetection methods A Survey on LLM-Generated Text Detection: Necessity, Methods, and Future DirectionsAs LLMs become ubiquitous, detecting machine-generated text is critical for mitigating risks of misinformation, academic dishonesty, and misuse. This survey comprehensively reviews detection strategies—watermarking techniques, statistical methods, neural-based detectors, and human-assisted approaches—along with datasets, evaluation… Wu et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIPlatforms, policy & society Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail?This paper investigates why large language models trained for safety remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. Through analysis of models including GPT-4 and Claude v1.3, the authors identify two key failure modes: competing objectives (where safety constraints conflict with other capabilities) and mismatched generalization (where safety… Wei et al. · arXiv · 2023

LLMs & generative AIFact-checking & verification Survey on Factuality in Large Language Models: Knowledge, Retrieval and Domain-SpecificityThis comprehensive survey addresses the critical problem of factuality in large language models, examining how LLMs store and retrieve knowledge, analyzing the mechanisms through which they generate false or misleading content, and reviewing evaluation metrics and enhancement strategies. The paper distinguishes factuality issues from… Wang et al. · arXiv · 2023

Spread & networksDetection methods The Evolution of Distributed Systems for Graph Neural Networks and their Origin in Graph Processing and Deep Learning: A SurveyThis survey systematically examines distributed systems for scalable GNN training, bridging graph processing systems (Pregel, PowerGraph, GraphLab) and DNN training systems (TensorFlow, PyTorch) to show how techniques from both domains inform GNN system design. The paper categorizes methods across partitioning, sampling, communication,… Vatter et al. · arXiv · 2023