Leveraging LLM-Generated Explanations for Detecting Emotionally Rewritten Fake News
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arXiv:2610.08835v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The spread of fake news may cause severe social consequences. Existing fake news detection methods mainly focus on stylistic variations or incorporate external information such as explanations. However, news articles are often rewritten under different emotional backgrounds while preserving their underlying factual claims, which may affect the robustness of detection models. In this work, we investigate fake news detec- tion under fact-preserving emotional variations. To study this problem, we construct emotion-rewritten test sets and g
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.08835v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The spread of fake news may cause severe social consequences.
- Existing fake news detection methods mainly focus on stylistic variations or incorporate external information such as explanations.
- However, news articles are often rewritten under different emotional backgrounds while preserving their underlying factual claims, which may affect the robustness of detection models.
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