Harry Stuart
2026
Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection
Zhiwei Liu | Yupeng Cao | Yuechen Jiang | Mohsinul Kabir | Polydoros Giannouris | Chen Xu | Ziyang Xu | Tianlei Zhu | Md. Tariquzzaman | Triantafillos Papadopoulos | Yan Wang | Lingfei Qian | Xueqing Peng | Zhuohan Xie | Ye Yuan | Saeed Almheiri | Abdulrazzaq Alnajjar | Ming-Bin Chen | Harry Stuart | Paul Thompson | Prayag Tiwari | Alejandro Lopez-Lira | Xue Liu | Jimin Huang | Sophia Ananiadou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Zhiwei Liu | Yupeng Cao | Yuechen Jiang | Mohsinul Kabir | Polydoros Giannouris | Chen Xu | Ziyang Xu | Tianlei Zhu | Md. Tariquzzaman | Triantafillos Papadopoulos | Yan Wang | Lingfei Qian | Xueqing Peng | Zhuohan Xie | Ye Yuan | Saeed Almheiri | Abdulrazzaq Alnajjar | Ming-Bin Chen | Harry Stuart | Paul Thompson | Prayag Tiwari | Alejandro Lopez-Lira | Xue Liu | Jimin Huang | Sophia Ananiadou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied across various domains of finance. Since their training data are largely derived from human-authored corpora, LLMs may inherit a range of human biases. Behavioral biases can lead to instability and uncertainty in decision-making, particularly when processing financial information. However, existing research on LLM bias has mainly focused on direct questioning or simplified, general-purpose settings, with limited consideration of the complex real-world financial environments and high-risk, context-sensitive, multilingual financial misinformation detection tasks (MFMD). In this work, we propose MFMDScen, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating behavioral biases of LLMs in MFMD across diverse economic scenarios. In collaboration with financial experts, we construct three types of complex financial scenarios: (i) role- and personality-based, (ii) role- and region-based, and (iii) role-based scenarios incorporating ethnicity and religious beliefs. We further develop a multilingual financial misinformation dataset covering English, Chinese, Greek, and Bengali. By integrating these scenarios with misinformation claims, MFMDScen enables a systematic evaluation of 22 mainstream LLMs. Our findings reveal that pronounced behavioral biases persist across both commercial and open-source models. This project is available at https://github.com/lzw108/FMD.