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FakeCovid -- A Multilingual Cross-domain Fact Check News Dataset for COVID-19

arXiv 2006.11343 ↗First posted 19 Jun 2020cs.CY cs.SIcited by 60

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In this paper, we present a first multilingual cross-domain dataset of 5182 fact-checked news articles for COVID-19, collected from 04/01/2020 to 15/05/2020. We have collected the fact-checked articles from 92 different fact-checking websites after obtaining references from Poynter and Snopes. We have manually annotated articles into 11 different categories of the fact-checked news according to their content. The dataset is in 40 languages from 105 countries. We have built a classifier to detect fake news and present results for the automatic fake news detection and its class. Our model achieves an F1 score of 0.76 to detect the false class and other fact check articles. The FakeCovid dataset is available at Github.

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  3. 2021Transformer-based Language Model Fine-tuning Methods for COVID-19 Fake News Detectioncited by 15
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  11. 2025Beyond Translation: LLM-Based Data Generation for Multilingual Fact-Checkingcited by 8
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  14. 2022Using Persuasive Writing Strategies to Explain and Detect Health Misinformationcited by 6
  15. 2026JailNewsBench: Multi-Lingual and Regional Benchmark for Fake News Generation under Jailbreak Attackscited by 6
  16. 2021A transformer based approach for fighting COVID-19 fake newscited by 5
  17. 2021Mitigation of Diachronic Bias in Fake News Detection Datasetcited by 5
  18. 2021Challenges and Considerations with Code-Mixed NLP for Multilingual Societiescited by 4
  19. 2022The COVMis-Stance dataset: Stance Detection on Twitter for COVID-19 Misinformationcited by 4
  20. 2023Give Me More Details: Improving Fact-Checking with Latent Retrievalcited by 4
  21. 2024Cross-Lingual Learning vs. Low-Resource Fine-Tuning: A Case Study with Fact-Checking in Turkishcited by 4
  22. 2024ViWikiFC: Fact-Checking for Vietnamese Wikipedia-Based Textual Knowledge Sourcecited by 4
  23. 2024Monolingual and Multilingual Misinformation Detection for Low-Resource Languages: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 4
  24. 2022ArCovidVac: Analyzing Arabic Tweets About COVID-19 Vaccinationcited by 3
  25. 2025On the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Automating Categorization of Scientific Textscited by 3
  26. 2025When Scale Meets Diversity: Evaluating Language Models on Fine-Grained Multilingual Claim Verificationcited by 3
  27. 2021AraCOVID19-MFH: Arabic COVID-19 Multi-label Fake News and Hate Speech Detection Datasetcited by 2
  28. 2021Tiplines to Combat Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian Election on WhatsAppcited by 2
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  30. 2022Multiverse: Multilingual Evidence for Fake News Detectioncited by 2
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  32. 2025Communication styles and reader preferences of LLM- and human-authored COVID-19 information explanations: a case studycited by 2
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  35. 2021Checkovid: A COVID-19 misinformation detection system on Twitter using network and content mining perspectivescited by 1
  36. 2022Are You Misinformed? A Study of Covid-Related Fake News in Bengali on Facebookcited by 1
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