A dataset to study Fake News in Portuguese, presenting a supposedly false News along with their respective fact check and classification.
The data is collected from the ClaimReview, a structured data schema used by fact check agencies to share their results in search engines, enabling data collect in real time.
The FACTCK.BR corpus is a dataset in the form of a 9 column table with 1309 lines, each one corresponding to a claim.
The corpus is storage in a text file with tabs separating the columns, encoded in UTF-8.
| Columns | Description |
|---|---|
| URL | Check article web address |
| Author | Initiative id. |
| datePublished | Check publication date |
| claimReviewed | Claim analyzed |
| reviewBody | Check text |
| Title | Title of the article |
| ratingValue | Numerical classification |
| bestRating | Lenght of the scale |
| alternativeName | Text label |
The dataset can be updated using a Python script. The script get new articles from the RSS feed of the fact check agencies and update the dataset locally.
This work will be published at WebMedia '19, Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web, October 29 - November 1, 2019, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. If you are using FACTCK.BR, please cite our paper. https://doi.org/10.1145/3323503.3361698
The dataset are licensed under the MIT License by the author; you may not use FACTCK.BR except in compliance with the License. A copy of the License is included in the project, see the file LICENSE.txt. The paper Publication rights licensed to ACM.
This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.