2025
PCoT: Persuasion-Augmented Chain of Thought for Detecting Fake News and Social Media Disinformation
ACL 2025long
Disinformation detection is a key aspect of media literacy. Psychological studies have shown that knowledge of persuasive fallacies helps individuals detect disinformation. Inspired by these findings, we experimented with large language models (LLMs) to test whether infusing persuasion knowledge enh…