Wei Gao

The prevalence of fake news on social media calls for automated fact-checking systems that deliver not only accurate verdicts but also faithful explanations. However, existing large language model (LLM)-based methods often overlook deceptive misinformation styles in generated explanations, produc...

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has improved LLM reasoning, but models often generate explanations that appear coherent while containing unfaithful intermediate steps. Existing self-evaluation approaches are prone to inherent biases: the model may confidently endorse coherence even when the step...

Current multimodal fake news detectors predominantly function as opaque classifiers, offering limited deductive transparency and little insight into how conflicting evidence is reconciled. To address this limitation, we propose Dialectical Structured Reasoning (DSR), a framework modeling fake new...