3 papers
cs.CL2026
CoT is Not the Chain of Truth: An Empirical Internal Analysis of Reasoning LLMs for Fake News Generation
Zhao Tong, Chunlin Gong, Yiping Zhang +5
From generating headlines to fabricating news, the Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically assessed by their final outputs, under the safety assumption that a refusal response s…
cs.LG2026
Group-Adaptive Adversarial Learning for Robust Fake News Detection Against Malicious Comments
Zhao Tong, Chunlin Gong, Yimeng Gu +4
Online fake news profoundly distorts public judgment and erodes trust in social platforms. While existing detectors achieve competitive performance on benchmark datasets, they rema…
cs.CL2025
Multi-MLLM Knowledge Distillation for Out-of-Context News Detection
Yimeng Gu, Zhao Tong, Ignacio Castro +2
Multimodal out-of-context news is a type of misinformation in which the image is used outside of its original context. Many existing works have leveraged multimodal large language…