Deconstruct, Diagnose, and Deliberate: A Protocol-Adaptive Role-Specific Multi-Agent Framework for Fake News Detection (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for fake news detection rely on monolithic verification methods . Existing approaches often yield ambiguous verdicts due to superficial processing . |
| Approach: | They propose a protocol-adaptive role-specific multi-agent framework that decomposes verification into factual, logical, and contextual dimensions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods in both predictive accuracy and explanatory quality. |
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