ExTax: Explainable Disinformation Detection via Persuasion, Emotion, and Narrative Role Taxonomies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27045v1
• Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT
• Title: ExTax: Explainable Disinformation Detection via Persuasion, Emotion, and Narrative Role Taxonomies
• Abstract summary: We present textbfExTax, a taxonomy-aligned framework for explainable disinformation detection.<n>ExTax unifies persuasive rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and narrative roles into a 17-dimensional taxonomic space.
• Score: 35.68571350617106
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The democratization of LLMs has accelerated the generation and circulation of highly fluent disinformation, making traditional syntax-semantic verification increasingly insufficient. Such deception rarely relies solely on surface-level falsity; instead, it often combines persuasive rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and narrative role construction to influence readers' interpretations through multiple cognitive pathways. However, existing detectors typically emphasize isolated signals -- such as syntax, external knowledge, persuasion, or affective cues -- and therefore struggle to capture the multi-faceted manipulative intents underlying disinformation or provide human-auditable explanations. To address this gap, we present \textbf{ExTax}, a taxonomy-aligned framework for explainable disinformation detection. ExTax unifies persuasive rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and narrative roles into a 17-dimensional taxonomic space, covering 6 persuasive-rhetoric strategies, 5 emotional-manipulation methods, and 6 narrative-role categories. It elicits attributes from multiple frontier LLMs, reconciles their disagreements through Entropy-driven Dynamic Label Smoothing, and fuses the resulting taxonomic representations with contextual encodings via Heterogeneous Multi-Head Attention, grounding each prediction in an interpretable manipulation profile. Across five cross-domain and cross-genre benchmarks, ExTax achieves an overall Macro $F_1$ of $0.8456$, outperforming state-of-the-art deep learning and LLM-based baselines. It also remains robust under severe genre imbalance, where the strongest deep baseline degrades from $0.9454$ to $0.6194$.

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