r/Fakeddit: A New Multimodal Benchmark Dataset for Fine-grained Fake News Detection

Understand

Fake news has altered society in negative ways in politics and culture.

• It has adversely affected both online social network systems as well as offline communities and conversations.
• Using automatic machine learning classification models is an efficient way to combat the widespread dissemination of fake news.
• However, a lack of effective, comprehensive datasets has been a problem for fake news research and detection model development.