dataset_name: Celebrity Fake News Dataset
language:
- en
license: gpl
tags:
- fake-news
- text-classification
- nlp
size_categories:
- 0<n<10K
task_categories:
- text-classification
Celebrity Fake News Dataset
Dataset Description
From, Rada Mihalcea, the dataset curator's website: 'A dataset of fake and legitimate news, covering several domains (technology, education, business, sports, politics, entertainment and celebrity news). It consists of nearly 1,000 news, split evenly between fake and legitimate, collected through crowdsourcing or from web sources.' This is the celebrityDataset portion of the data-set. A fakeNewsDataset will be added separately.
Source Data
The original data-set can be downloaded as a Zip from Rada Milhacea's website. See the paper cited below for more information.
Dataset Structure
Data Fields
text: Value(dtype='string', id=None)
label: ClassLabel(names=['legit', 'fake'], id=None)
Data Splits
train: 500 examples
Dataset Author/Creator
Rada Mihalcea
Licensing Information
This data is licensed by its author under the GNU General Public License.
Citation Information
If you use this dataset, please cite:
Veronica Perez-Rosas, Bennett Kleinberg, Alexandra Lefevre, Rada Mihalcea, Automatic Detection of Fake News, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), New Mexico, NM, August 2018. https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mihalcea/papers/perezrosas.coling18.pdf