Unreliable News Data

We also compiled a large corpus of unreliable news articles. These articles come from different types of unreliable sources including satire, propaganda, and hoaxes. See table below for more details:

Labelled Unreliable News Data Set

Politifact Data

Collection of rated statments from Politifact fact-checkers (as of Mar 2016) and their connected sites ( punditfact). Statements are rated on 6 pt. scale from True to Pants-on-fire-False. More details about the rubric that is used at Politifact can be found at the politifact website.

~10,000 graded politifact statements

Wiktionary Lexicons

We compiled the following lexicons for textual analysis of "dramatic" language found in unreliable (esp. hoax and propaganda) articles. All of the following lists were compiled from Wiktionary and include:

• superlative words (eg. most, least, highest, greatest)
• comparative words (eg. more, less, higher, greater)
• modal adverbs (eg. obviously, presumably, likely, unquestionably)
• act-based adverbs (eg. maturely, delicately, accidentally)
• manner adverbs (eg. understandably, positiviely, foolishly)

Wiktionary-based Lexicons

Relevant Papers