@misc{tong2026cotchaintruthempirical,
      title={CoT is Not the Chain of Truth: An Empirical Internal Analysis of Reasoning LLMs for Fake News Generation}, 
      author={Zhao Tong and Chunlin Gong and Yiping Zhang and Haichao Shi and Qiang Liu and Xingcheng Xu and Shu Wu and Xiao-Yu Zhang},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2602.04856},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04856}, 
},