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FNC-1 (Fake News Challenge Stage 1)

Introduced in The fake news challenge: Exploring how artificial intelligence technologies could be leveraged to combat fake news archive 2025-07-28

FNC-1 was designed as a stance detection dataset and it contains 75,385 labeled headline and article pairs. The pairs are labelled as either agree, disagree, discuss, and unrelated. Each headline in the dataset is phrased as a statement

Source: Investigating Rumor News Using Agreement-Aware Search Image Source: http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Fake News Detection FNC-1 Sepúlveda-Torres R., Vicente M., Saquete E., Lloret E., Palomar M. (2021) Weighted Accuracy 90.73 Exploring Summarization to Enhance Headline Stance Detection rsepulveda911112/Headline-Stance-Detection 10 Compare
Stance Detection FNC-1 TESTED F1 83.17 Topic-Guided Sampling For Data-Efficient Multi-Domain... copenlu/TESTED +1 2 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

8 shown of 8 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 19. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • FNC-1

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