A Dataset for Fake News on 2023 Israel–Hamas war
This GitHub repository corresponds to the dataset used for our research purpose. The repository contains fact-checked articles and social media posts about the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. The data is extracted through the AMUSED framework. The shared content only contains links to the fact-checked articles. The dataset consists of around 1362 articles from 131 fact-checking websites in 40 languages. Out of which, 1062 fact-checked articles refer to one of the social media claims. The dataset presents the fact-checked articles published from 7th October 2023 to 16th February 2024.
The dataset contains the following attribute
published_date, which refers to the date the article was published
Link is the webpage of the fact-checked articles
news_language is the language of the fact-checked articles.
Link to the social media post In the other file, a social media link containing a claim is provided.
The distribution of a number of fact-checked articles is mentioned below:
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For personal communication related to our work, please contact Gautam Kishore Shahi([email protected]).