Challenge: Existing methods for multi-modal fake news detection neglect the fact that some label-specific features cannot generalize well to the testing set, thus suffering from the latent data bias.
Approach: They propose a Causal intervention and Counterfactual reasoning based debiasing framework for multi-modal fake news detection that eliminates the image-only bias by deducting the direct effect of the image from the total effect on labels.
Outcome: The proposed framework eliminates the psycholinguistic bias in the text and the bias of inferring news label based on only image features.

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