A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections
Copyright © 2020, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Recently, messaging applications, such as WhatsApp, have been reportedly abused by misinformation campaigns, especially in Brazil and India. A notable form of abuse in WhatsApp relies on...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135274 |
| Summary: | Copyright © 2020, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Recently, messaging applications, such as WhatsApp, have been reportedly abused by misinformation campaigns, especially in Brazil and India. A notable form of abuse in WhatsApp relies on several manipulated images and memes containing all kinds of fake stories. In this work, we performed an extensive data collection from a large set of WhatsApp publicly accessible groups and fact-checking agency websites. This paper opens a novel dataset to the research community containing fact-checked fake images shared through WhatsApp for two distinct scenarios known for the spread of fake news on the platform: the 2018 Brazilian elections and the 2019 Indian elections. |
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