Echoes of Unrest: A Multimodal NLP Framework for Early Warning of Fake News and Violence-Driven Mob Activity
This paper presents a multilingual multimodal NLP framework integrating XLM-RoBERTa, CLIP, multi-head attention, sarcasm, and geospatial metadata to detect misinformation and violence-prone dynamics early. Using a fused dataset of 138,256 Bangla and English samples, it achieves 98% test accuracy with strong precision and recall.
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Title:Echoes of Unrest: A Multimodal NLP Framework for Early Warning of Fake News and Violence-Driven Mob Activity
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Abstract:Rapid growth in social media has transformed global communication by enabling fast information exchange, but it has also accelerated the spread of misinformation. Fake news, manipulated content, and provocative narratives are increasingly linked to social unrest, political instability, and mob violence. Incidents in South Asia and elsewhere demonstrate how false information disseminated via platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp can trigger real-world harm, often spreading faster than fact-checking efforts can respond. To address this challenge, this chapter presents a multilingual, multimodal Natural Language Processing (NLP) framework for early detection of misinformation and violence-prone dynamics. A fused dataset of 138,256 Bangla and English samples was created by combining multiple benchmark datasets. The framework integrates XLM-RoBERTa for multilingual text representation, CLIP for visual embedding, and a multi-head attention mechanism for multimodal fusion, enhanced with auxiliary features such as sarcasm and geospatial metadata. Experiments on a stratified 30% subset achieved 98% test accuracy with strong precision and recall. The outcomes show the efficacy of multimodal approaches in early misinformation detection and highlight the added value of geospatial signals for anticipating real-world escalation.
Comments: Accepted for publication as a book chapter (Taylor & Francis, 2026)
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Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
Cite as: arXiv:2607.02734 [cs.CL]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.02734
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From: Md. Maruf Bangabashi [view email] [v1] Thu, 2 Jul 2026 20:05:40 UTC (5,274 KB)
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