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Monant Medical Misinformation Dataset: Mapping Articles to Fact-Checked Claims

26 Apr 2022arXiv:2204.12294archive 2025-07-28

Ivan Srba, Branislav Pecher, Matus Tomlein, Robert Moro, Elena Stefancova, Jakub Simko, Maria Bielikova

False information has a significant negative influence on individuals as well as on the whole society. Especially in the current COVID-19 era, we witness an unprecedented growth of medical misinformation. To help tackle this problem with machine learning approaches, we are publishing a feature-rich dataset of approx. 317k medical news articles/blogs and 3.5k fact-checked claims. It also contains 573 manually and more than 51k automatically labelled mappings between claims and articles. Mappings consist of claim presence, i.e., whether a claim is contained in a given article, and article stance towards the claim. We provide several baselines for these two tasks and evaluate them on the manually labelled part of the dataset. The dataset enables a number of additional tasks related to medical misinformation, such as misinformation characterisation studies or studies of misinformation diffusion between sources.

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