Table 2 Dataset description.
Aspect | Politifact dataset | Gossipcop dataset |
|---|---|---|
Sources | Political fact-checks from PolitiFact | Entertainment rumor checks from GossipCop |
Types of News | ~ 900 political news articles | ~ 20,000 entertainment news articles |
User Interactions | 95,553 users posted tweets | 249,887 users posted tweets |
113,473 liked | 401,363 liked | |
106,195 retweeted | 346,459 retweeted | |
40,585 replied | 186,675 replied | |
News Content | 420 articles with text | 528 articles with text |
336 articles with images | 447 articles with images | |
Social Context | 164,892 tweets | 399,237 tweets |
11,975 replies | 41,852 replies | |
31,692 likes | 93,839 likes | |
23,489 retweets | 67,035 retweets | |
Network Info | 405 M followers | 1B followers |
449 M followees | 1.07B followees | |
Avg followers/user: 1,299.98 | Avg followers/user: 982.67 | |
Avg followees/user: 1,440.89 | Avg followees/user: 1,040.21 | |
Spatiotemporal Info | 217,379 user profiles with location | 719,331 user profiles with location |
3,337 geo-tagged tweets | 12,692 geo-tagged tweets | |
296 news timestamps | 167 news timestamps | |
171,301 response timestamps | 669,641 response timestamps |
