Table 3 Data splitting for PolitiFact and GossipCop datasets (train-validation-test).

From: Towards improved fake news detection using a hybrid RoBERTa and metadata enhanced XGBoost model

Dataset

Train (70%)

Test (20%)

Validation (10%)

PolitiFact

 Fake news

331

95

47

 Real news

558

159

80

 Total

889

254

127

GossipCop

 Fake news

3,734

1,067

534

 Real news

11,773

3,364

1,681

 Total

15,507

4,431

2,215