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About Data
This IFND dataset covers news pertaining to India only. This dataset is created by scapping indian fact checking websites.The dataset contains two types of news fake and real News. This dataset was collected from realworld sources.The truthful news and fake news were collected from different reliable fact-checking websites. The dataset contains different types of articles on different topics, however, the majority of news focus on political news.
The above CSV files is comma separated file and have the following columns:
*id- Unique identifider for each news
*Statement- Title of the news article
*Image- Image Url
*Category-Topic of news
*Date- Date of news
*Label- 1 indicate True news and 0 indicate fake news
The image folder is divided into True and fake images. Images can be accessed using this link- https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1K4NacXO8_9ZLxWBpyoKL0fLXr0uRsa2W
Note that there are absolutely no guarantees with this data, and we provide this dataset "as is", but you are welcome to report the issues of the preliminary version of this data.
You are allowed to use this dataset for research purposes only.
For more question about the dataset, please contact: Sonal Garg, sonugarg174@gmail.com
References
If you use this dataset, as an agreement,please cite the following papers:
Sharma, D. K., & Garg, S. (2021). IFND: a benchmark dataset for fake news detection. Complex & Intelligent Systems, 1-21.
Garg, S., & Sharma, D. K. (2020, December). New Politifact: A Dataset for Counterfeit News. In 2020 9th International Conference System Modeling and Advancement in Research Trends (SMART) (pp. 17-22). IEEE.
Garg, S., & Sharma, D. K. (2020, December). Phony News Detection using Machine Learning and Deep-Learning Techniques. In 2020 9th International Conference System Modeling and Advancement in Research Trends (SMART) (pp. 27-32). IEEE.
Sharma, D. K., & Garg, S. (2021, July). Machine Learning Methods to identify Hindi Fake News within social-media. In 2021 12th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Sharma, Sunidhi, and Dilip Kumar Sharma. "Fake News Detection: A long way to go." 2019 4th International Conference on Information Systems and Computer Networks (ISCON). IEEE, 2019.
Sharma, D.K., and Garg, S.”, A Framework for automatic fake content identification”, In IEEE Sponsored 1st International Conference” Simulation, Automation& Smart Manufacturing”, SASM 2021, held at GLA University, India.