The CoVID19-FNIR dataset contains news stories related to CoVID-19 pandemic fact-checked by expert fact-checkers. CoVID19-FNIR is a CoVID-19-specific dataset consisting of fact-checked fake news scraped from Poynter and true news from the verified Twitter handles of news publishers. The data samples were collected from India, The United States of America, and European regions and consist of online posts from social media platforms between February 2020 to June 2020. The dataset went through prepossessing steps that include removing special characters and non-vital information.
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[1] Julio A. Saenz, Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, Diksha Shukla,
"Covid-19 Fake News Infodemic Research Dataset (CoVID19-FNIR Dataset)",
IEEE Dataport,
2021. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/b5bt-5244. Accessed: Mar. 20, 2025.
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Julio A. Saenz, Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, Diksha Shukla.
(2021).
Covid-19 Fake News Infodemic Research Dataset (CoVID19-FNIR Dataset).
IEEE Dataport.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/b5bt-5244
Julio A. Saenz, Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, Diksha Shukla,
2021.
Covid-19 Fake News Infodemic Research Dataset (CoVID19-FNIR Dataset).
Available at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/b5bt-5244.
Julio A. Saenz, Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, Diksha Shukla.
(2021).
"Covid-19 Fake News Infodemic Research Dataset (CoVID19-FNIR Dataset)."
Web.
1. Julio A. Saenz, Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, Diksha Shukla.
Covid-19 Fake News Infodemic Research Dataset (CoVID19-FNIR Dataset) [Internet].
IEEE Dataport; 2021.
Available from :
http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/b5bt-5244
Julio A. Saenz, Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, Diksha Shukla.
"Covid-19 Fake News Infodemic Research Dataset (CoVID19-FNIR Dataset)."
doi:
10.21227/b5bt-5244