TELLER: A Trustworthy Framework for Explainable, Generalizable and Controllable Fake News Detection

Hui Liu, Wenya Wang, Haoru Li, Haoliang Li


Abstract
The proliferation of fake news has emerged as a severe societal problem, raising significant interest from industry and academia. While existing deep-learning based methods have made progress in detecting fake news accurately, their reliability may be compromised caused by the non-transparent reasoning processes, poor generalization abilities and inherent risks of integration with large language models (LLMs). To address this challenge, we propose TELLER, a novel framework for trustworthy fake news detection that prioritizes explainability, generalizability and controllability of models. This is achieved via a dual-system framework that integrates cognition and decision systems, adhering to the principles above. The cognition system harnesses human expertise to generate logical predicates, which guide LLMs in generating human-readable logic atoms. Meanwhile, the decision system deduces generalizable logic rules to aggregate these atoms, enabling the identification of the truthfulness of the input news across diverse domains and enhancing transparency in the decision-making process. Finally, we present comprehensive evaluation results on four datasets, demonstrating the feasibility and trustworthiness of our proposed framework.
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2024.findings-acl.919
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15556–15583
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.919
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10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.919
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Hui Liu, Wenya Wang, Haoru Li, and Haoliang Li. 2024. TELLER: A Trustworthy Framework for Explainable, Generalizable and Controllable Fake News Detection. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 15556–15583, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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