Challenge: Existing multimodal rumor detection models overlook sample difficulty and order when training . Existing models overlook text-level difficulty, image-level and multimodal difficulty when training samples .
Approach: They propose a curriculum learning framework that uses fine-grained fusion to detect rumors . they propose fusion-based methods that combine text and images to enhance semantic cohesion .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art models on English and Chinese benchmark datasets.

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