Challenge: Fact-checking claims on social media platforms poses a significant challenge due to the large volume of new claims constantly being posted without sufficient methods for verification.
Approach: They propose a model that generates claim-specific summaries from multimodal multi-document datasets using a perceiver-based model that is able to handle inputs from multiple modalities of arbitrary lengths.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the SOTA approach by 4.6% in the claim verification task on the MOCHEG dataset and shows strong performance on the new multi-document claims dataset.

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