Table 2 Comparison of PolitiFact and GossipCop datasets.
From: Towards improved fake news detection using a hybrid RoBERTa and metadata enhanced XGBoost model
Feature | PolitiFact dataset | GossipCop dataset |
|---|---|---|
Number of classes | 2 (real, fake) | 2 (real, fake) |
Domain | Political news | Celebrity/entertainment news |
Number of articles | 1,270 | 22,153 |
Real news count | 797 | 16,818 |
Fake news count | 473 | 5,335 |
Metadata available | Yes (Source, Date) | Yes (Source, Engagement) |
Preprocessing required | Yes | Yes |
Dataset size | Small | Large |
