# KEN: Knowledge Augmentation and Emotion Guidance Network for Multimodal Fake News Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09647 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.09647/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 15 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Jul 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 15 of 15)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1556/) (2014)
- [Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.14030/) (2021)
- [BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.12597/) (2023)
- [ViLBERT: Pretraining Task-Agnostic Visiolinguistic Representations for Vision-and-Language Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.02265/) (2019)
- [Exploiting Multi-domain Visual Information for Fake News Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.04472/) (2019)
- [Improving Fake News Detection by Using an Entity-enhanced Framework to Fuse Diverse Multimodal Clues](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.10509/) (2021)
- [Multimodal Fake News Detection via CLIP-Guided Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.14304/) (2022)
- [FakeFlow: Fake News Detection by Modeling the Flow of Affective Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.09810/) (2021)
- [Multi-modal Fake News Detection on Social Media via Multi-grained Information Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.00827/) (2023)
- [GAMC: An Unsupervised Method for Fake News Detection using Graph Autoencoder with Masking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.05739/) (2023)
- [A General Black-box Adversarial Attack on Graph-based Fake News Detectors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.15744/) (2024)
- [GIN-SD: Source Detection in Graphs with Incomplete Nodes via Positional Encoding and Attentive Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.00014/) (2024)
- [Hypergraph Attacks via Injecting Homogeneous Nodes into Elite Hyperedges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.18365/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [SEER: Semantic Enhancement and Emotional Reasoning Network for Multimodal Fake News Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.13415/) (2025)
- [Disentangling Fact from Sentiment: A Dynamic Conflict-Consensus Framework for Multimodal Fake News Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.20670/) (2025)
- [DIVER: Dynamic Iterative Visual Evidence Reasoning for Multimodal Fake News Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.07178/) (2026)
- [LLM-MRD: LLM-Guided Multi-View Reasoning Distillation for Fake News Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.19293/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In recent years, the rampant spread of misinformation on social media has made accurate detection of multimodal fake news a critical research focus. However, previous research has not adequately understood the semantics of images, and models struggle to discern news authenticity with limited textual information. Meanwhile, treating all emotional types of news uniformly without tailored approaches further leads to performance degradation. Therefore, we propose a novel Knowledge Augmentation and Emotion Guidance Network (KEN). On the one hand, we effectively leverage LVLM's powerful semantic understanding and extensive world knowledge. For images, the generated captions provide a comprehensive understanding of image content and scenes, while for text, the retrieved evidence helps break the information silos caused by the closed and limited text and context. On the other hand, we consider inter-class differences between different emotional types of news through balanced learning, achieving fine-grained modeling of the relationship between emotional types and authenticity. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our KEN.