BanFakeNews: A Dataset for Detecting Fake News in Bangla

Understand

Observing the damages that can be done by the rapid propagation of fake news in various sectors like politics and finance, automatic identification of fake news using linguistic analysis has drawn the attention of the research community.

• However, such methods are largely being developed for English where low resource languages remain out of the focus.
• But the risks spawned by fake and manipulative news are not confined by languages.
• In this work, we propose an annotated dataset of ~50K news that can be used for building automated fake news detection systems for a low resource language like Bangla.