Explainable Automatic Fact-Checking for Journalists Augmentation in the Wild

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Journalistic manual fact-checking is the usual way to address fake news; however, this labor-intensive task regularly is not a match for the scale of the problem. The literature introduced automated fact-checking (AFC) as a potential solution; however, there is still missing functionality in the AFC pipeline, a lack of research benchmarking data, and a disconnect between their design and human factors crucial for adoption. We present a fully explainable AFC framework designed to augment professional journalists in the wild. A novel human annotation-free approach surpasses state-of-the-art multi-label classification by 12%. It is the first to demonstrate strong generalization across different claim subjects without retraining and to generate complete verdict explanation articles and their summaries. A focused user study of 103 professional journalists, with 93% having dedicated experience with fact-checking, validates the framework's level of explainability, transparency, and quality of generated fact-checking artifacts. The importance of establishing clear source selection and bias evaluation criteria reinforced the need for human augmentation, not replacement, by AFC systems.

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