A news article may include sentences and have associated comments. A embodiment determines semantic correlation between each sentence and each comment to generate correlation degrees between the sentences and the comments, determines sentence attention weights of the sentences and comment attention weights of the comments based on the correlation degrees, and detect whether the news article is fake based on latent representations of the sentences and the comments, the sentence attention weights and the comment attention weights. A list of sentences and a list of comments may be selected based on the sentence attention weights and the comment attention weights, respectively, to provide explanation for a detection result.
Systems and Methods for Explainable Fake News Detection