Claim veracity assessment for explainable fake news detection (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent approaches to fake news detection focus on textual features without external facts, which may lead to a misrepresentation of the truth. |
| Approach: | They propose a new fake news detection method that predicts the truth or false-hood of a claim based on relevant factual evidence or LLM’s inference mechanisms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method produces the final synthesized prediction, along with well-founded facts or reasoning. |
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