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Multimodal Fusion Model for Fake News Detection Combining BERT and Graph Attention Networks

Aug 2026 · Applied and Computational Engineering · 0 citations

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This work proposes a framework that combines BERT text embeddings with Graph Attention Network representations of propagation graphs that combines BERT text embeddings with Graph Attention Network (GAT) representations of propagation graphs.

Abstract

Fake-news detection needs both semantic and social evidence: text-only systems miss coordinated diffusion, while graph-only systems may confuse virality with falsehood. We propose a framework that combines BERT text embeddings with Graph Attention Network (GAT) representations of propagation graphs. Projected features are aligned by a cross-modal consistency loss and combined through an adaptive attention gate; when graphs are unavailable, the structural branch is masked. FakeNewsNet and Twitter15/16 evaluate full fusion, while LIAR tests text-only operation. On FakeNewsNet, the model reaches 93.4% accuracy, 92.8% Macro-F1, and 0.97 AUC. Ablations support both fusion components, and token- and node-level attribution assists human review.

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