AI RESEARCH
REFLEX: Self-Refining Explainable Fact-Checking via Verdict-Anchored Style Control
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2511.20233v3 Announce Type: replace The prevalence of fake news on social media demands automated fact-checking systems to provide accurate verdicts with faithful explanations. However, existing large language model (LLM)-based approaches ignore deceptive misinformation styles in LLM-generated explanations, resulting in unfaithful rationales that can mislead human judgments. They rely heavily on external knowledge sources,