arXiv AI
Sep 2

CoVer: Conflict-Aware Claim Verification

arXiv:2609.00508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social media fact-checking has long been challenged by evidence-level and aggregation-level conflicts, where erroneous evidence mimics authoritative ne...

By Shuning Zhang, Dai Shi, Bohao Chu, Hui Wang, Yuwei Chuai, Yifan Wang, Jingruo Chen, Simin Li, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
arXiv AI
3d ago

Evaluating and Improving Evidence-Grounded Fact-Checking in LLMs via Multi-Round Evidence Ablation

The paper introduces Fact-Ablated Evaluation (FAE), a framework that iteratively removes cited evidence to test whether large language models (LLMs) adjust their fact‑checking predictions accordingly. Experiments reveal that many off‑the‑shelf LLMs rely more on internal knowledge than on the provided evidence. To address this, the authors propose REAL, a training method that uses counterfactual evidence supervision to encourage LLMs to base veracity judgments on evidence, achieving better evidence‑dependent performance across four datasets.

By Xingyu Deng, Mingzi Cao, Nikolaos Aletras, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

Gaming Consensus: Coordinated Manipulation in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking

arXiv:2607. 01824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowdsourced fact-checking systems have been adopted by major social media companies such as X, Meta, TikTok and Google with the aim of combating misleading information at scale without relying on centralized editorial control.

By Nikil Roashan Selvam, Jay Baxter, Sophie Hilgard, Brad Miller, Keith Coleman, Ellen Vitercik, Sanmi Koyejo