Automated Fact-Checking

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Automated fact-checking studies how to identify verifiable claims, find relevant evidence, and judge whether claims are supported, refuted, or unresolved. Systems combine check-worthiness classifiers, web or knowledge-graph retrieval, claim decomposition, and evidence-grounded language models; newer work also handles images, video, speech, and multilingual claims. Benchmarks such as FEVER, SciFact, and AVeriTeC test retrieval and verdict quality, but results often shift across domains, languages, and evidence conditions. A central challenge is ensuring that verdicts truly follow the cited evidence while controlling retrieval errors, uncertainty, cost, and benchmark contamination.

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  1. Multilingual Reference Need Assessment System for Wikipedia

    Mar 17, 2026Aitolkyn Baigutanova, Francisco Navas, Pablo Aragon +5Multilingual Text ClassificationText Classification

    Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco, USA · Wikimedia Foundation Brooklyn, USA · Wikimedia Foundation Barcelona, Spain +3

  2. MALicious INTent Dataset and Inoculating LLMs for Enhanced Disinformation Detection

    Mar 15, 2026Arkadiusz Modzelewski, Witold Sosnowski, Eleni Papadopulos +4Fake News DetectionIntent Classification

    University of Padua, Italy · Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland · NASK National Research Institute, Poland +1

  3. Plato's Cave: A Human-Centered Research Verification System

    Mar 6, 2026Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, Raul Valle, Junsung Kim +9Scientific Claim VerificationAutomated Fact-Checking

    University of Florida · Georgia Institute of Technology

  4. DeepFact: Co-Evolving Benchmarks and Agents for Deep Research Factuality

    Mar 6, 2026Yukun Huang, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Momchil Hardalov +3Automated Fact-CheckingAI Agent Benchmarks

    Duke University · Amazon AGI · Boston University

  5. Leveraging LLM Parametric Knowledge for Fact Checking without Retrieval

    Mar 5, 2026Artem Vazhentsev, Maria Marina, Daniil Moskovskiy +8Automated Fact-CheckingFactual Knowledge in Language Models

    MBZUAI · S-NLP Group · AXXX +3

  6. A Browser-based Open Source Assistant for Multimodal Content Verification

    Mar 3, 2026Rosanna Milner, Michael Foster, Twin Karmakharm +5Automated Fact-CheckingFake News Detection

    University of Sheffield · AFP Medialab

  7. Multi-Sourced, Multi-Agent Evidence Retrieval for Fact-Checking

    Feb 27, 2026Shuzhi Gong, Richard O. Sinnott, Jianzhong Qi +3Automated Fact-CheckingEvidence Retrieval

    The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia · Data61, CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia · MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  8. FactGuard: Agentic Video Misinformation Detection via Reinforcement Learning

    Feb 26, 2026Zehao Li, Hongwei Yu, Hao Jiang +7Automated Fact-CheckingTool Use in VLMs

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

  9. MultiCW: A Large-Scale Balanced Benchmark Dataset for Training Robust Check-Worthiness Detection Models

    Feb 18, 2026Martin Hyben, Sebastian Kula, Jan Cegin +3Automated Fact-CheckingLanguage Model Robustness

    Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Bratislava, Slovakia · West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

  10. AIC CTU@AVerImaTeC: dual-retriever RAG for image-text fact checking

    Feb 16, 2026Herbert Ullrich, Jan DrchalAutomated Fact-CheckingRetrieval-Augmented Generation

  11. D-SECURE: Dual-Source Evidence Combination for Unified Reasoning in Misinformation Detection

    Feb 16, 2026Samudi Amarasinghe, Gagandeep Singh, Priyanka SinghFake News DetectionAutomated Fact-Checking

    School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  12. GitSearch: Enhancing Community Notes Generation with Gap-Informed Targeted Search

    Feb 9, 2026Sahajpreet Singh, Kokil Jaidka, Min-Yen Kan +1Automated Fact-CheckingEvidence Retrieval

    National University of Singapore

  13. RADAR: Retrieval-Augmented Detector with Adversarial Refinement for Adaptive LLM-Generated Fake News Detection

    Jan 7, 2026Song-Duo Ma, Yi-Hung Liu, Hsin-Yu Lin +4Adversarial TrainingFake News Detection

    National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  14. Althea: The Fact-Checking--Metalearning Tradeoff in AI-Assisted Verification

    Dec 29, 2025Svetlana Churina, Kokil Jaidka, Anab Maulana Barik +5Human-in-the-Loop EvaluationAutomated Fact-Checking

    Centre for Trusted Internet & Community (CTIC), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore · Department of Communications and New Media, Centre for Trusted Internet & Community (CTIC), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore · School of Computing, Centre for Trusted Internet & Community (CTIC), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

  15. Hybrid Fact-Checking that Integrates Knowledge Graphs, Large Language Models, and Search-Based Retrieval Agents Improves Interpretable Claim Verification

    Nov 5, 2025Shaghayegh Kolli, Richard Rosenbaum, Timo Cavelius +3LLM GroundingAutomated Fact-Checking

    Technical University Munich

  16. M4FC: a Multimodal, Multilingual, Multicultural, Multitask Real-World Fact-Checking Dataset

    Oct 27, 2025Jiahui Geng, Jonathan Tonglet, Iryna GurevychAutomated Fact-CheckingMultimodal Understanding

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

  17. UrduFactCheck: An Agentic Fact-Checking Framework for Urdu with Evidence Boosting and Benchmarking

    May 21, 2025Sarfraz Ahmad, Hasan Iqbal, Momina Ahsan +6LLM EvaluationFactual Consistency Evaluation

    MBZUAI

  18. TrendFact: A Benchmark Towards Hotspot Perception in Automatic Fact-Checking

    Oct 19, 2024Xiaocheng Zhang, Xi Wang, Yifei Lu +5Automated Fact-Checking

    1Harbin Institute of Technology · 2National University of Defense Technology · 3Northeastern University +3

  19. Generative Large Language Models in Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey

    Jul 2, 2024Ivan Vykopal, Matúš Pikuliak, Simon Ostermann +1Automated Fact-Checking

    Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic · Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Bratislava, Slovakia · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany +1