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Existing benchmarks for fake news detection have significantly contributed to the advancement of models in assessing the authenticity of news content. However, these benchmarks typically focus solely on news pertaining to a single semantic…

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This survey addresses the crucial issue of factuality in Large Language Models (LLMs). As LLMs find applications across diverse domains, the reliability and accuracy of their outputs become vital. We define the Factuality Issue as the…

The proliferation of misinformation on social media has raised significant societal concerns, necessitating robust detection mechanisms. Large Language Models such as GPT-4 and LLaMA2 have been envisioned as possible tools for detecting…

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The rapid spread of online disinformation presents a global challenge, and machine learning has been widely explored as a potential solution. However, multilingual settings and low-resource languages are often neglected in this field. To…

Real-world information, often multimodal, can be misinformed or potentially misleading due to factual errors, outdated claims, missing context, misinterpretation, and more. Such "misinformation" is understudied, challenging to address, and…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as scalable tools for pilot testing, predicting public opinion distributions before deploying costly surveys. To serve as effective pilot testing tools, the performance of these LLMs is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xutao Mao , Ezra Xuanru Tao , Leyao Wang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the large-scale generation of highly fluent and deceptive news-like content. While prior work has often treated fake news detection as a binary classification problem, modern fake…

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"Citizen queries" are questions asked by an individual about government policies, guidance, and services that are relevant to their circumstances, encompassing a range of topics including benefits, taxes, immigration, employment, public…

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The pervasiveness of the dissemination of fake news through social media platforms poses critical risks to the trust of the general public, societal stability, and democratic institutions. This challenge calls for novel methodologies in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingyuan Yi , Zeqiu Xu , Tianyi Huang , Peiyang Yu

The mechanisms underlying scientific confabulation in Large Language Models (LLMs) remain poorly understood. We introduce ReFACT (Reddit False And Correct Texts), a benchmark of 1,001 expert-annotated question-answer pairs with span-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yindong Wang , Martin Preiß , Margarita Bugueño , Jan Vincent Hoffbauer , Abdullatif Ghajar , Tolga Buz , Gerard de Melo

Multilingual falsehoods threaten information integrity worldwide, yet detection benchmarks remain confined to English or a few high-resource languages, leaving low-resource linguistic communities without robust defense tools. We introduce…

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The growing scale of online misinformation urgently demands Automated Fact-Checking (AFC). Existing benchmarks for evaluating AFC systems, however, are largely limited in terms of task scope, modalities, domain, language diversity, realism,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mark Rothermel , Marcus Kornmann , Marcus Rohrbach , Anna Rohrbach

The rise of digital misinformation has heightened interest in using multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) for fact-checking. This study systematically evaluates translation bias and the effectiveness of LLMs for cross-lingual claim…

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The pervasive influence of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a double-edged sword, enhancing communication while simultaneously propagating misinformation. This \textit{Digital Infodemic} has highlighted the urgent need for…

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Misinformation regarding climate change is a key roadblock in addressing one of the most serious threats to humanity. This paper investigates factual accuracy in large language models (LLMs) regarding climate information. Using true/false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Michael Fore , Simranjit Singh , Chaehong Lee , Amritanshu Pandey , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Dimitrios Stamoulis

Community-based fact-checking is a promising approach to verify social media content and correct misleading posts at scale. Yet, causal evidence regarding its effectiveness in reducing the spread of misinformation on social media is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yuwei Chuai , Moritz Pilarski , Thomas Renault , David Restrepo-Amariles , Aurore Troussel-Clément , Gabriele Lenzini , Nicolas Pröllochs

Misinformation poses a variety of risks, such as undermining public trust and distorting factual discourse. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have been shown effective in mitigating misinformation, particularly in handling statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yury Orlovskiy , Camille Thibault , Anne Imouza , Jean-François Godbout , Reihaneh Rabbany , Kellin Pelrine

In recent years, the proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms has become a significant concern. Initially designed for sharing information and fostering social connections, platforms like Twitter (now rebranded as X) have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Uku Kangur , Roshni Chakraborty , Rajesh Sharma

Fake news undermines societal trust and decision-making across politics, economics, health, and international relations, and in extreme cases threatens human lives and societal safety. Because fake news reflects region-specific political,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Masahiro Kaneko , Ayana Niwa , Timothy Baldwin

Identifying claims requiring verification is a critical task in automated fact-checking, especially given the proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms. Despite notable progress, challenges remain-particularly in handling…

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