End-to-End Explainable Fake News Detection Via Evidence-Claim Variational Causal Inference

Explainable Fake News Detection (EFND) is a new challenge that aims to verify news authenticity and provide clear explanations for its decisions. Traditional EFND methods often treat the tasks of classification and explanation as separate, ignoring the fact that explanation content can assist in enhancing fake news detection. To overcome this gap, we present a new solution: the End-to-end Explainable Fake News Detection Network ( \(EExpFND\) ). Our model includes an evidence-claim variational causal inference component, which not only utilizes explanation content to improve fake news detection but also employs a variational approach to address the distributional bias between the ground truth explanation in the training set and the prediction explanation in the test set. Additionally, we incorporate a masked attention network to detail the nuanced relationships between evidence and claims. Our comprehensive tests across two public datasets show that \(EExpFND\) sets a new benchmark in performance. The code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/EExpFND-F5C6.