Echoes of Unrest: A Multimodal NLP Framework for Early Warning of Fake News and Violence-Driven Mob Activity
Rapid growth in social media has transformed global communication by enabling fast information exchange, but it has also accelerated the spread of misinformation. Fake news, manipulated content, and provocative narratives are increasingly linked to social unrest, political instability, and mob violence. Incidents in South Asia and elsewhere demonstrate how false information disseminated via platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp can trigger real-world harm, often spreading faster than fact-checking efforts can respond. To address this challenge, this chapter presents a multilingual, multimodal Natural Language Processing (NLP) framework for early detection of misinformation and violence-...
| Authors | Md. Maruf Bangabashi, Tahmid Hasan, Golam Mahmud et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 2 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 July 2026 |
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