Style-News: Incorporating Stylized News Generation and Adversarial Verification for Neural Fake News Detection

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Main Authors: Wang, Wei-Yao, Chang, Yu-Chieh, Peng, Wen-Chih
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author Wang, Wei-Yao
Chang, Yu-Chieh
Peng, Wen-Chih
author_facet Wang, Wei-Yao
Chang, Yu-Chieh
Peng, Wen-Chih
contents With the improvements in generative models, the issues of producing hallucinations in various domains (e.g., law, writing) have been brought to people's attention due to concerns about misinformation. In this paper, we focus on neural fake news, which refers to content generated by neural networks aiming to mimic the style of real news to deceive people. To prevent harmful disinformation spreading fallaciously from malicious social media (e.g., content farms), we propose a novel verification framework, Style-News, using publisher metadata to imply a publisher's template with the corresponding text types, political stance, and credibility. Based on threat modeling aspects, a style-aware neural news generator is introduced as an adversary for generating news content conditioning for a specific publisher, and style and source discriminators are trained to defend against this attack by identifying which publisher the style corresponds with, and discriminating whether the source of the given news is human-written or machine-generated. To evaluate the quality of the generated content, we integrate various dimensional metrics (language fluency, content preservation, and style adherence) and demonstrate that Style-News significantly outperforms the previous approaches by a margin of 0.35 for fluency, 15.24 for content, and 0.38 for style at most. Moreover, our discriminative model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of publisher prediction (up to 4.64%) and neural fake news detection (+6.94% $\sim$ 31.72%).
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spellingShingle Style-News: Incorporating Stylized News Generation and Adversarial Verification for Neural Fake News Detection
Wang, Wei-Yao
Chang, Yu-Chieh
Peng, Wen-Chih
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Social and Information Networks
With the improvements in generative models, the issues of producing hallucinations in various domains (e.g., law, writing) have been brought to people's attention due to concerns about misinformation. In this paper, we focus on neural fake news, which refers to content generated by neural networks aiming to mimic the style of real news to deceive people. To prevent harmful disinformation spreading fallaciously from malicious social media (e.g., content farms), we propose a novel verification framework, Style-News, using publisher metadata to imply a publisher's template with the corresponding text types, political stance, and credibility. Based on threat modeling aspects, a style-aware neural news generator is introduced as an adversary for generating news content conditioning for a specific publisher, and style and source discriminators are trained to defend against this attack by identifying which publisher the style corresponds with, and discriminating whether the source of the given news is human-written or machine-generated. To evaluate the quality of the generated content, we integrate various dimensional metrics (language fluency, content preservation, and style adherence) and demonstrate that Style-News significantly outperforms the previous approaches by a margin of 0.35 for fluency, 15.24 for content, and 0.38 for style at most. Moreover, our discriminative model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of publisher prediction (up to 4.64%) and neural fake news detection (+6.94% $\sim$ 31.72%).
title Style-News: Incorporating Stylized News Generation and Adversarial Verification for Neural Fake News Detection
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15509