Journal
BIG DATA
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 171-188Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/big.2020.0062
Keywords
fake news; disinformation; misinformation; data repository
Funding
- National Science Foundation [1909555, 1614576, 1742702, 1820609, 1915801]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems [1915801] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1742702] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Graduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [1820609] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1909555] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Social media has become a popular means for people to consume and share the news. At the same time, however, it has also enabled the wide dissemination of fake news, that is, news with intentionally false information, causing significant negative effects on society. To mitigate this problem, the research of fake news detection has recently received a lot of attention. Despite several existing computational solutions on the detection of fake news, the lack of comprehensive and community-driven fake news data sets has become one of major roadblocks. Not only existing data sets are scarce, they do not contain a myriad of features often required in the study such as news content, social context, and spatiotemporal information. Therefore, in this article, to facilitate fake news-related research, we present a fake news data repository FakeNewsNet, which contains two comprehensive data sets with diverse features in news content, social context, and spatiotemporal information. We present a comprehensive description of the FakeNewsNet, demonstrate an exploratory analysis of two data sets from different perspectives, and discuss the benefits of the FakeNewsNet for potential applications on fake news study on social media.
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