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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational2 October 2026

What Does a Sharing Question Add? Auditing LLM Survey Scores for Misinformation

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arXiv:2604.06820v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating misinformation requires distinguishing whether readers believe content from whether they would share it. Asking large language models (LLMs) both questions yields two scores, but does the sharing answer contribute information beyond the credibility answer? We audit eight model versions on 290 synthetic misinformation articles, using 1,256 paired survey responses with 317 participant identifiers as an external validity criterion. An initial reversal motivates the audit: every model's raw sharing score predicts mean human sharing les
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