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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| author | Reis, JCS Melo, P Garimella, K Almeida, JM Eckles, D Benevenuto, F |
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| author_facet | Sloan School of Management Reis, JCS Melo, P Garimella, K Almeida, JM Eckles, D Benevenuto, F |
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| description | 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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1352742023-02-17T20:17:55Z A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections Reis, JCS Melo, P Garimella, K Almeida, JM Eckles, D Benevenuto, F Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society 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. 2021-10-27T20:22:44Z 2021-10-27T20:22:44Z 2020-01-01 2021-04-12T17:57:00Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135274 en Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Reis, JCS Melo, P Garimella, K Almeida, JM Eckles, D Benevenuto, F A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections |
| title | A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections |
| title_full | A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections |
| title_fullStr | A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections |
| title_full_unstemmed | A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections |
| title_short | A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections |
| title_sort | dataset of fact checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135274 |
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