Angela Soomin Ryu


2022

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Evons: A Dataset for Fake and Real News Virality Analysis and Prediction
Kriste Krstovski | Angela Soomin Ryu | Bruce Kogut
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

We present a novel collection of news articles originating from fake and real news media sources for the analysis and prediction of news virality. Unlike existing fake news datasets which either contain claims, or news article headline and body, in this collection each article is supported with a Facebook engagement count which we consider as an indicator of the article virality. In addition we also provide the article description and thumbnail image with which the article was shared on Facebook. These images were automatically annotated with object tags and color attributes. Using cloud based vision analysis tools, thumbnail images were also analyzed for faces and detected faces were annotated with facial attributes. We empirically investigate the use of this collection on an example task of article virality prediction.