Beyond Evidence: Belief-Chain Conditioning for Persuasive Misinformation Debunking Explanation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to misinformation correction focus on relying on audience beliefs to generate factually accurate responses and to engage with users' mental states. |
| Approach: | They construct large language models with cognitive chains and use them to model their outputs on beliefs that engage with users' mental states. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves explanation quality for audiences with misinformation-aligned beliefs by incorporating believers’ chains into the model. |
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