MVAN: Multi-View Attention Networks for Fake News Detection on Social Media
To address the challenge of detecting fake news in real-world social scenarios—where only source tweets (short texts) and retweet user structures (without comments) are available—this paper proposes a Multi-View Attention Network (MVAN), the first framework to jointly model semantic attention over short text and structural attention over propagation graphs. MVAN employs dual-path self-attention mechanisms: one to identify salient lexical cues in the source tweet, and another to detect suspicious retweeters based on propagation topology, enabling end-to-end co-learning of semantic and diffusion patterns. The model achieves both high detection accuracy and intrinsic interpretability: it outperforms state-of-the-art methods by an average of 2.5% in accuracy on two real-world datasets, while generating traceable, semantically grounded explanations for its predictions.