A new arXiv paper (2610.08835v1) proposes a Gated Cross Attention (GCA) framework that uses LLM-generated explanations from original news articles as stable background knowledge to detect fake news th…
President Trump used Truth Social on Monday to tell American towns fighting data center construction that they risk becoming 'backwards and poor,' framing the buildout as essential to staying rich in …
A study of more than 15 large language models by Dr. Filippo Menczer of Indiana University Bloomington found that AI fact-checking tools are less accurate than human fact-checkers but can achieve 98-9…
A new study from researchers at Cambridge University finds that information disorder—a media environment with low barriers to content creation, rapid spread of false material, and algorithmic amplific…
ICE detention hit a record 70,766 in January 2026, with about 70% of detainees having no criminal conviction, according to data from TRAC. The surge was funded by $75 billion in new money in 2025 and …
Fine-tuned RoBERTa achieved a 0.62 macro-F1 score for classifying misinformation responses on Reddit, outperforming the best zero-shot large language model (Claude Haiku 4.5) at 0.50 while costing a f…
A study evaluating 15 large language models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on over 6,000 political claims found that standard models performed poorly at fact-checking, with reasoning capabili…