Credible, Unreliable or Leaked?: Evidence Verification for Enhanced Automated Fact-checking

arXiv:2404.18971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated fact-checking (AFC) is garnering increasing attention by researchers aiming to help fact-checkers combat the increasing spread of misinformation online. While many existing AFC methods incorporate external information from the Web to help examine the veracity of claims, they often overlook the importance of verifying the source and quality of collected "evidence". One overlooked challenge involves the reliance on "leaked evidence", information gathered directly from fact-checking websites and used to train AFC systems, resulting in …

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