Debunk and Infer: Multimodal Fake News Detection via Diffusion-Generated Evidence and LLM Reasoning
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| author | Yan, Kaiying Liu, Moyang Liu, Yukun Fu, Ruibo Wen, Zhengqi Tao, Jianhua Liu, Xuefei |
| author_facet | Yan, Kaiying Liu, Moyang Liu, Yukun Fu, Ruibo Wen, Zhengqi Tao, Jianhua Liu, Xuefei |
| contents | The rapid spread of fake news across multimedia platforms presents serious challenges to information credibility. In this paper, we propose a Debunk-and-Infer framework for Fake News Detection(DIFND) that leverages debunking knowledge to enhance both the performance and interpretability of fake news detection. DIFND integrates the generative strength of conditional diffusion models with the collaborative reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Specifically, debunk diffusion is employed to generate refuting or authenticating evidence based on the multimodal content of news videos, enriching the evaluation process with diverse yet semantically aligned synthetic samples. To improve inference, we propose a chain-of-debunk strategy where a multi-agent MLLM system produces logic-grounded, multimodal-aware reasoning content and final veracity judgment. By jointly modeling multimodal features, generative debunking cues, and reasoning-rich verification within a unified architecture, DIFND achieves notable improvements in detection accuracy. Extensive experiments on the FakeSV and FVC datasets show that DIFND not only outperforms existing approaches but also delivers trustworthy decisions. |
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| spellingShingle | Debunk and Infer: Multimodal Fake News Detection via Diffusion-Generated Evidence and LLM Reasoning Yan, Kaiying Liu, Moyang Liu, Yukun Fu, Ruibo Wen, Zhengqi Tao, Jianhua Liu, Xuefei Computation and Language The rapid spread of fake news across multimedia platforms presents serious challenges to information credibility. In this paper, we propose a Debunk-and-Infer framework for Fake News Detection(DIFND) that leverages debunking knowledge to enhance both the performance and interpretability of fake news detection. DIFND integrates the generative strength of conditional diffusion models with the collaborative reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Specifically, debunk diffusion is employed to generate refuting or authenticating evidence based on the multimodal content of news videos, enriching the evaluation process with diverse yet semantically aligned synthetic samples. To improve inference, we propose a chain-of-debunk strategy where a multi-agent MLLM system produces logic-grounded, multimodal-aware reasoning content and final veracity judgment. By jointly modeling multimodal features, generative debunking cues, and reasoning-rich verification within a unified architecture, DIFND achieves notable improvements in detection accuracy. Extensive experiments on the FakeSV and FVC datasets show that DIFND not only outperforms existing approaches but also delivers trustworthy decisions. |
| title | Debunk and Infer: Multimodal Fake News Detection via Diffusion-Generated Evidence and LLM Reasoning |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21557 |