Chinese COVID-19 Fake News Dataset
26 de Abril de 2024

COVID-19 has impacted all lives. To maintain social distancing and avoiding exposure, works and lives have gradually moved online. Under this trend, social media usage to obtain COVID-19 news has increased. Also, misinformation on COVID-19 is frequently spread on social media. In this work, we develop CHECKED, the first Chinese dataset on COVID-19 misinformation. CHECKED provides a total 2,104 verified microblogs related to COVID-19 from December 2019 to August 2020, identified by using a specific list of keywords. Correspondingly, CHECKED includes 1,868,175 reposts, 1,185,702 comments, and 56,852,736 likes that reveal how these verified microblogs are spread and reacted on Weibo. The dataset contains a rich set of multimedia information for each microblog including ground-truth label, textual, visual, temporal, and network information. Extensive experiments have been conducted to analyze CHECKED data and to provide benchmark results for well-established methods when predicting fake news using CHECKED. We hope that CHECKED can facilitate studies that target misinformation on coronavirus. The dataset is available at https://github.com/cyang03/CHECKED.

Titulo em português
Plataforma
Weibo
Tipos de dataset
Tabular
Formato do Dataset
Brutos
Repositório
Autores
Chen Yang (None), Xinyi Zhou (None), Reza Zafarani (None)
Tipo de coleta
Scripting
Ferramenta e Método de Coleta
Início da coleta
Final da coleta
Procedimento de Reidratação
Classificação do Dataset
Ciências da Saúde
Palavras-chave
COVID-19, Infodemia, Fake News
Data de criação
26 de Abril de 2024
Organizações Financiadoras
ABNT
Yang, C., Zafarani, R., Zhou, X. Chinese COVID-19 Fake News Dataset. Disponível em: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.09029.pdf. Acesso em 03/05/2025
APA
Yang, C., Zafarani, R., Zhou, X. (???). Chinese COVID-19 Fake News Dataset.