Text-Guided Fine-grained Counterfactual Inference for Short Video Fake News Detection

Linlin Zong, Wenmin Lin, Jiahui Zhou, Xinyue Liu, Xianchao Zhang, Bo Xu, Shimin Wu

Abstract: Detecting fake news in short videos is crucial for combating misinformation. Existing methods utilize topic modeling and co-attention mechanism, overlooking the modality heterogeneity and resulting in suboptimal performance. To address this issue, we introduce Text-Guided Fine-grained Counterfactual Inference for Short Video Fake News detection (TGFC-SVFN). TGFC-SVFN leverages modality bias removal and teacher-model-enhanced inter-modal knowledge distillation to integrate the heterogeneous modalities in short videos. Specifically, we use causality-based reasoning prompts guided text as teacher model, which then transfers knowledge to the video and audio student models. Subsequently, a multi-head attention mechanism is employed to fuse information from different modalities. In each module, we utilize fine-grained counterfactual inference based on a diffusion model to eliminate modality bias. Experimental results on publicly available fake short video news datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques.