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Conflicting Sources Fact Checking: What Explanations Must Show

A 2026 explainer on conflicting sources in fact checking: evidence-relation matrix, span removal tests and six scores, drawing on CLUE, ConfRAG (57.2% of 1,814 questions) and NatConfQA.

November 2, 2026• 30 min read
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Privacy-Preserving Truth Discovery: A Utility Audit

A 2026 research audit of privacy-preserving truth discovery: protected units, local privacy budgets, source-weight reversals, secure aggregation, and a reproducible utility evaluation card.

October 20, 2026• 22 min read
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LLM conflicting sources: a counterfactual fusion test

A 2026 evidence review of LLM source conflict resolution, reconstructing tabular-fusion F1 results and specifying entity masking, source-dependence tests, abstention metrics and reproducible provenance.

October 19, 2026• 21 min read
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Source selection in data fusion: evaluating marginal evidence

A 2026 evaluation protocol for source selection in data fusion: compare held-out subsets, separate coverage from verified accuracy, test source dependence, and audit integration costs and provenance.

October 14, 2026• 23 min read
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Truth existence in data fusion: when all sources err

A 2026 research guide to no-truth questions in data fusion, TEM source-quality assumptions, SF2013 F1 denominators, and a held-out test for candidate omission and correct abstention.

September 26, 2026• 27 min read
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Testing Streaming Truth Discovery Under Drift

A 2026 research guide to streaming truth discovery, separating one-pass computation, evolving truth and source reliability drift with decision matrices and failure-injection metrics.

September 22, 2026• 21 min read
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Comparing Truth Discovery Methods Without Gold Labels

A 2026 protocol for evaluating truth discovery without ground truth, comparing synthetic stress tests, sparse adjudication, observation likelihood, stability, and uncertainty.

September 22, 2026• 19 min read
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Multiple Sources of Truth: An Assumption Audit

A 2026 assumption audit for multi-truth data integration, comparing LTM, MBM, and DART with worked claim matrices, omission semantics, provenance, and evaluation metrics.

September 22, 2026• 21 min read
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Truth Discovery with Copying Sources: Benchmark Guide

A 2026 assumptions-first guide to truth discovery benchmarks, comparing 12-method studies, copying detection above 95% in one setup, sparse labels, metrics, and method selection.

September 22, 2026• 20 min read
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