Framing-Induced Vulnerability in Large Language Models: Evidence from Chinese News Headlines
arXiv:2611.13531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly evaluate, route, and moderate news, so a model's judgment of a headline has become a gatekeeping decision. We ask whether that judgment follows the fact being reported or the way the fact is framed. We combine an ecological audit of 63,926 Chinese news headlines with a controlled experiment. The experiment covers 30 real events, 30 synthetic events, and 29 natural headline pairs, tested on four Chinese models. Changing only the headline frame shifted both perceived misleadingness and event severity, and the dire