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COVID-19 Fake News Dataset (COVID19 Fake News Detection in English)
Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an `infodemic'. Fake news and rumors are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm. This is further exacerbated at the time of a pandemic. To tackle this, we curate and release a manually annotated dataset of 10,700 social media posts and articles of real and fake news on COVID-19. We benchmark the annotated dataset with four machine learning baselines - Decision Tree, Logistic Regression , Gradient Boost , and Support Vector Machine (SVM). We obtain the best performance of 93.46\% F1-score with SVM.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| Fake News Detection | COVID-19 Fake News Dataset | Ensemble Model + Heuristic Post-Processing F1 0.9883 | A Heuristic-driven Ensemble Framework for COVID-19 Fake... | diptamath/covid_fake_news | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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| A Heuristic-driven Ensemble Framework for COVID-19 Fake News Detection | 1 | 1 | 10 Jan 2021 | not harvested |
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