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  1. SAFE-MR: Evidence Sufficiency Learning for Selective Multimodal Rumor Detection

    Oct 5, 2026Shiwen NiMultimodal RobustnessSelective Prediction

    Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

  2. More Claims, Less Evidence: Bounded Verification of AI-Generated Digital Knowledge Artifacts

    Oct 4, 2026Feliks Bańka, Jarosław A. ChudziakClaim VerificationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

  3. Community-Driven API and AI Writer Design for Openly Scaling Community Notes

    Sep 30, 2026Brad Miller, Jay Baxter, Jiansong Chao +3Human-in-the-Loop AIAutomated Fact-Checking

    Community Notes, SpaceXAI

  4. Multi-Channel Mitigation of Source-Trust Shortcuts in Fact-Checking RL Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Jianchang Su, Yiwei Yang, Wei ZhangAutomated Fact-CheckingLLM Reliability

    University of Connecticut · University of California, Santa Cruz

  5. VEX-Bench: Benchmarking Verification Complexity of LLM-Generated Misinformation

    Sep 28, 2026Hanxun Huang, Yutao Wu, Qizhou Wang +9LLM EvaluationFake News Detection

    The University of Melbourne · Deakin University · Singapore Management University +3

  6. Fair Fact-Checking: Closing the Cross-Lingual Gap in LLM Factual Judgement with RoSh

    Sep 28, 2026Muhammad Ahmad, Fatemeh Seyedin, Adrian Weller +2Multilingual Language Model EvaluationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Department of Computer Science, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan · BRAINS, Brandenburg Research Center for Applied Intelligent Systems, Potsdam, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Germany +3

  7. OpenFC: Learning Verification Policies towards Open-Search Fact Checking

    Sep 27, 2026Xinming Wang, Kaixiang Qiu, Yansong Lin +5RL for Language Model ReasoningAutomated Fact-Checking

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Beijing Institute of Technology +1

  8. MIC: Explaining Image-Claim Inconsistencies in AI-Generated Multimodal Misinformation

    Sep 27, 2026Ruihong Zeng, Jonathan Tonglet, Preslav Nakov +1Factual Consistency EvaluationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE · UKP Lab · Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany +2

  9. To Trust or Not to Trust: Retrieval-Augmented Fact Checking in Speech

    Sep 24, 2026Debajyoti Mazumder, Mamta, Abhirama Subramanyam PenamakuriAudio-Language Model EvaluationRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    IISER Bhopal · King’s College London · MBZUAI

  10. What Changes When Fact-Verification Scores Improve? Evidence and Answer Accounting Across Trained Verifiers and LLMs

    Sep 22, 2026Han Chen, Yingrui LiLLM EvaluationEvidence Selection

  11. ARAFA: An LLM-Generated Arabic Fact-Checking Dataset

    Sep 22, 2026Christophe Khalil, Shady Elbassuoni, Rida AssafArabic NLPAutomated Fact-Checking

    Computer Science, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

  12. R2VC: Modular Fact-Checking with Retrieval, Verification, and Confidence Calibration

    Sep 14, 2026Dhruv Dixit, Paritosh PandeyRetrieval-Augmented GenerationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey, United States · Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

  13. Detecting and Explaining Fake News Short Videos with Multimodal Content and Real-World Evidence

    Sep 14, 2026Yifeng Luo, Yupeng Li, Ming Tang +2Fake News DetectionAutomated Fact-Checking

    Department of Interactive Media; Hong Kong Baptist University · AI and Social Good Lab, AI Media Centre; Hong Kong Baptist University · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology +1

  14. MedSNIP: Building and Benchmarking Snippet-Level Granularity for Medical Fact Verification

    Sep 14, 2026Hasan Iqbal, Sarfraz Ahmad, Hyunjae Kim +5LLM Answer VerificationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Yale University · Korea University +2

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

    Sep 8, 2026Xingyu Deng, Mingzi Cao, Nikolaos Aletras +2LLM EvaluationLLM Grounding

    University of Sheffield · Sheffield, UK

  16. CoVer: Conflict-Aware Claim Verification

    Sep 1, 2026Shuning Zhang, Dai Shi, Bohao Chu +7Claim VerificationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Tsinghua University · Tongji University · University of Duisburg-Essen +5

  17. A Multi-Branch Feature Fusion Approach for Health Misinformation Detection and Propagation

    Aug 31, 2026Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun AjaoFake News DetectionAutomated Fact-Checking

    Department Of Computing And Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

  18. ReflectFact: Self-Reflective Agents for Improving Comprehension and Reasoning in Multi-Hop Fact Verification

    Aug 13, 2026Runze Zhao, Zixin Tang, Xiaoshuai Hao +4Automated Fact-CheckingAgentic Reasoning

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 1Zhongguancun Laboratory · 3Xiaomi EV

  19. Don't `Well, Actually' Me Unless You Know What You're Talking About: Weak Presupposition Verification Degrades General QA Performance

    Aug 6, 2026Shenran Wang, Vered Shwartz, Hila GonenLLM EvaluationLLM Answer Verification

    Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia · Vector Institute · CIFAR AI Chair +1

  20. Latent Fact-Checking: Detecting Misinformation through Activation Engineering

    Aug 5, 2026Pedro T. Barcelos, Otávio Parraga, Marcelo M. Mussi +3Fake News DetectionAutomated Fact-Checking

    MALTA, Machine Learning Theory and Applications Lab, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil · Kunumi Institute, Brazil

  21. TriQua: Reconciling Granularity and Context in Factuality Evaluation

    Aug 5, 2026Jin Liu, Steffen Thoma, Achim RettingerLLM Answer VerificationFactual Consistency Evaluation

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany · Trier University, Trier, Germany

  22. An Evidence-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Transformer Framework for Health Misinformation Verification

    Aug 3, 2026Isah M. Bukar, Bala Mairiga Abduljalil, Bashir Saleh Maina +1Retrieval-Augmented GenerationFake News Detection

    Department of Computer Science, Yobe State University, Damaturu, Nigeria · Yobe AI Research Laboratory (YAIR Lab), Yobe State University, Damaturu, Nigeria · Center for AI & Big Data, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation +1

  23. When Retrieval Helps and Distracts: Evaluating Evidence-Generating LLMs for Biomedical Claim Verification

    Aug 2, 2026Pritam Deka, Prabhjot SinghExplainable Artificial IntelligenceAutomated Fact-Checking

    Queen’s University Belfast United Kingdom · University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas, USA

  24. HyperClaim: Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Hypergraph Reasoning for Video Misinformation Detection

    Jul 30, 2026Xiangbo Wang, Jiasheng Zhang, Xingtong Yu +2Fake News DetectionAutomated Fact-Checking

    School of Communication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University · School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University +1

  25. Evidence-Ledger Adjudication for Claim-Evidence Traceability

    Jul 29, 2026Gengyu Chen, Yongjie Yu, Weiling WangClaim VerificationCitation Verification

    Carnegie Mellon University · Syracuse University

  26. Novel Claim or Déjà Vu? Rethinking "Contamination-Free'' Dynamic Evaluation for Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking

    Jul 26, 2026Haorui He, Xinwen Chen, Dacheng Wen +3Benchmark ContaminationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Department of Interactive Media, Hong Kong Baptist University · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong · Faculty of Science and Technology, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University

  27. GPE: Evaluating Robust Evidence Aggregation for Fact Verification under Controllable GEO-Style Poisoning

    Jul 22, 2026Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Xiaomei Yuan +4RAG Poisoning AttacksAutomated Fact-Checking

    School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology · School of Computer Science, The University of Auckland

  28. Sparse Evidence Can Suffice: Agentic Evidence Seeking for Multimodal Video Misinformation Detection

    Jul 20, 2026Haochen Zhao, Yongxiu Xu, Xinkui Lin +6Automated Fact-CheckingMultimodal Agents

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Baidu, Beijing, China

  29. DeLIVeR: Decomposed Learning for Information-grounded Veracity Recognition via Reinforced Knowledge Graph Exploration

    Jul 20, 2026Cong Hoan Nguyen, Thomas Hoang, Hieu Minh Duong +1LLM GroundingRL for Language Model Reasoning

    University of Louisville, Louisville KY 40292, USA. · Denison University, Granville, Ohio 43023, USA.

  30. Evaluating Health Misinformation in Low-Resource Languages: Integrating Small Language Models with a Culturally-Sensitive Responsible NLP Framework (Bangla as a Case Study)

    Jul 14, 2026Farnaz Farid, Raihan Alam, Al Al-Areqi +5Small Language ModelsAutomated Fact-Checking

    School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University · Microsoft · School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University +4