COVID-19 Fake News Dataset

Name: COVID-19 Fake News Dataset
Creator: Abhishek Koirala
Published: 2021-02-22T23:41:11.998Z
Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Algorithm, Text Processing, Deep Learning

Koirala, Abhishek

doi:10.17632/zwfdmp5syg.1

COVID-19 Fake News Dataset

Published: 22-02-2021| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/zwfdmp5syg.1

Contributor:

Abhishek Koirala

Description

This dataset consists of a collection of true and fake news related to COVID-19. The dataset consists of news between the period of December 2019- July 2020.

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This dataset was collected using Webhose.io and was manually labelled. It consists of 3 subcategories of news: false news, true news, and partially false news. For the sake of classification, both partially false news and false news has been labelled 0 and true news has been labelled 1