EAAI Journal 2025 Journal Article
A hybrid detection method for YouTube fake news using related video data
- Junho Kim
- Yongjun Shin
- Gyeongho Jung
- Hyunchul Ahn
Fake news has rapidly evolved from simple textual forms to complex multimedia content, with YouTube emerging as a major platform for its dissemination. However, most existing detection techniques focus solely on content-based features, often overlooking the contextual signals embedded in related video data. We propose a novel hybrid detection framework that integrates content- and context-based approaches to address this limitation. Our method combines multimodal features extracted from textual and visual components of the original video, along with contextual information from related videos. Text data is processed using word embedding techniques, while image and visual elements are analyzed through Convolutional Neural Networks. To evaluate our framework's robustness and generalizability, we conducted experiments on two complementary datasets: a publicly available multilingual dataset and a newly constructed Korean dataset. The results show that the proposed method achieves a 0. 1–9. 7 % improvement in detection accuracy compared to traditional content-only approaches. These findings underscore the value of leveraging related video information for more reliable fake news detection, and they confirm that our hybrid method can be effectively applied across diverse language and regional contexts. Our work contributes to mitigating the societal harm caused by misinformation on video-sharing platforms and offers practical insights into developing more robust multimedia fake news detection systems.