When AI Argues Back: The Promise and Peril of Evidence-Based Multi-Agent Debate
Fact-checking has always had a small public-relations problem: being right is not the same as being believed. A platform can label a claim false. A newsroom can publish a careful correction. A compliance team can flag a misleading ad, remove it, document the action, and still watch the same claim reappear in a shinier costume three hours later. The hard part is not only detection. It is persuasion. People need to understand why a claim fails, not merely be informed that someone with a badge disapproves of it. ...