An effective strategy for multi-modal fake news detection

News plays an indispensable role in the development of human society. With the emergence of new media, fake news including multi-modal content such as text and images has greater social harm. Therefore how to identify multi-modal fake news has been a challenge. The traditional methods of multi-modal fake news detection are to simply fuse the different modality information, such as concatenation and element-wise product, without considering the different impacts of the different modalities, which leads to the low accuracy of fake news detection. To address this issue, we design a new multi-modal attention adversarial fusion method built on the pre-training language model BERT, which consists of two important components: the attention mechanism and the adversarial mechanism. The attention mechanism is used to capture the differences in different modalities. The adversarial mechanism is to capture the correlation between different modalities. Experiments on a fake news Chinese public dataset indicate that our proposed new method achieves 5% higher in terms of F1.