A Counterfactual Graph Approach to Oppositional Narrative Analysis
Distinguishing legitimate critical speech from coordinated conspiracy narratives is a pressing challenge for the integrity of the online information ecosystem, yet prevailing approaches rely on labeled entity roles and rigid predefined schemas that fail to capture the diffuse and context-dependent nature of participation in such narratives. We propose a modular framework that extracts an entity-interaction graph directly from narratives and reasons over it for classification, without depending on annotated node-level labels. Our pipeline enumerates candidate entity spans from a domain-adapted BERT encoder and learns a bipartite graph structure, which is then classified with a Heterogeneou...
| Authors | Diego Revilla, Martin Fernandez-de-Retana, Lingfeng Chen et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 6 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 11 October 2026 |
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