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Aug 2026
SCAR-FND: Auditing Lexical Shortcuts in the ISOT Fake News Benchmark Through Automatic Discovery and Matched Ablation
Findings of SCAR-FND indicate that ISOT contains a small but highly predictive set of lexical, source, editorial, and stylistic cues, and complements conventional accuracy reporting with a transparent audit of what information the classifier is using.
Moshira A. Ebrahim, H. Sakr
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