The paper presents the Temporal Coherence Score (TCS), a continuous, interpretable metric for detecting temporal inconsistencies in political news. TCS is computed through a four‑stage pipeline that extracts temporal facts, builds a temporal knowledge graph, verifies consistency using internal rules and external references, and aggregates scores with explanations. On a benchmark of 100 political articles with injected errors, TCS achieves 0.909 precision, providing detailed explanations for each flagged inconsistency.
By Marius Nicusor Pantea, Adrian Groza
The paper investigates how language models transform factual news into stories, revealing that standard source‑agreement metrics misjudge intentional changes. By rewriting 2,000 news articles into summaries and stories, the authors measured alterations across the five Ws, finding that stories often lose place and causation details while increasing accountability distortions—sometimes downplaying perpetrators. The study introduces ReTold‑2k, a corpus and scoring protocol to detect and mitigate such distortions.
The paper investigates how language models transform factual news into narrative stories, revealing that standard source‑agreement metrics misjudge the quality of these retellings. By having three model families rewrite 2,000 news articles as summaries and as stories, the authors measured changes across the five Ws and identified distortions—especially in place, causation, and accountability—that are often overlooked by fact‑checking. They found that stories tend to lose critical contextual details while amplifying accountability distortions, which can shift blame and remain undetected by conventional checks.
By Kwangsuk Park, JiWoong Yang, Vaniushkina Kseniia
arXiv:2606. 22030v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate when belief-based memory actually improves large language model (LLM) agents.
By Pranav Singh
arXiv:2609.36902v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing multimodal fake news detection methods often introduce external information to assist detection. However, most of them rely on entity-level re...
By Wenbin Shen, Guoxuan Qin, Guangxu Yao, Baodong Wang, Yuanbo Rui, Zhongjie Ba, Zhichao Lian
arXiv:2607. 09328v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Answering complex questions over long documents frequently requires integrating evidence that the source itself disperses naturally across distant passages.
By Zixin Chen, Peng Liu, Haobo Li, Rui Sheng, Jianhong Tu, Xiaodong Deng, Fei Huang, Kashun Shum, Dayiheng Liu, Huamin Qu
arXiv:2607. 09328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Answering complex questions over long documents frequently requires integrating evidence that the source itself disperses naturally across distant passages.
By Zixin Chen, Peng Liu, Haobo Li, Rui Sheng, Jianhong Tu, Xiaodong Deng, Fei Huang, Kashun Shum, Dayiheng Liu, Huamin Qu
arXiv:2608. 20116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in settings where textual summaries, numerical observations, and external tool outputs may provide conflicting evidence.
By Mattia Carletti, Edward Phillips, Fredrik K. Gustafsson, Patitapaban Palo, Lei Clifton, Danielle Belgrave, Xiao Gu, David A. Clifton
arXiv:2606. 27736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid spread of fake news poses increasing threats to information ecosystems, especially as AI-generated misinformation under Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) poisoning allows adversarially crafted content to be systematically surfaced by retrieval systems, contaminating LLM reasoning.
By Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Kun Zheng, Zhen Li, Xin Li, Chunlei Li, Jiamou Liu
The paper demonstrates that large language models (LLMs) used for forecasting real‑world events can be manipulated by simply publishing new articles, even without direct access to the model or its retriever. By injecting a small number of targeted news pieces into a common crawl corpus, an adversary can flip over half of the forecast probabilities and significantly degrade forecast accuracy. The study also shows that common defense strategies can be cheaply bypassed, highlighting the vulnerability of probabilistic LLM judgments to information‑supply‑chain attacks.
By Yuan Lu, Yukuan Zhang
The paper introduces "stale‑document poisoning," a temporal alignment failure where outdated retrieval evidence causes retrieval‑augmented generation models to produce incorrect answers even when the model could answer correctly without retrieval. A benchmark of 317 verified knowledge reversals across medicine, law, software, and platform policy shows that outdated evidence flips 30–37% of Llama and Qwen answers, rising to 66–75% when models are explicitly instructed to trust the document. The study demonstrates that providing explicit validity information and a recency‑aware re‑ranker can substantially reduce poisoning, highlighting the need for models to assess whether retrieved evidence remains applicable.
By Md Shamim Ahmed, Lukas Galke Poech, Richard R\"{o}ttger
arXiv:2607. 17291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents increasingly operate over the open web, where relevant records coexist with redundant summaries, outdated reports, and misleading documents.
By Jun Nie, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenheng Tang, Yonggang Zhang, Xiaowen Chu, Xinmei Tian, Bo Han