StarMFND: Star Topology Multi-Domain Fake News Detection

The proliferation of the Internet and the emergence of social media platforms have greatly accelerated the speed and scope of information dissemination, while also introducing the peril of fake news propagation, particularly in political, economic, health, and other domains. Many scholars have conducted research on fake news detection, and most of this research focuses on domain-specific single-domain fake news detection or mixed-domain detection without considering domain information. Most existing multi-domain fake news detection approaches model the domains of fake news implicitly and do not pay attention to the domain seesaw phenomenon. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes a Star Topology Multi-Domain Fake News Detection Model (StarMFND), which explicitly models the domains of fake news using a star topology, and simultaneously leverages the data from all the domains to obtain the common and specific features associated with fake news across different domains. Experiments on Chinese and English datasets demonstrated the good performance of StarMFND for multi-domain fake news detection.