FACTOID: A New Dataset for Identifying Misinformation Spreaders and Political Bias

Understand

Proactively identifying misinformation spreaders is an important step towards mitigating the impact of fake news on our society.

• In this paper, we introduce a new contemporary Reddit dataset for fake news spreader analysis, called FACTOID, monitoring political discussions on Reddit since the beginning of 2020.
• The dataset contains over 4K users with 3.4M Reddit posts, and includes, beyond the users' binary labels, also their fine-grained credibility level (very low to very high) and their political bias strength (extreme right to extreme left).
• As far as we are aware, this is the first fake news spreader dataset that simultaneously captures both the long-term context of users' historical posts and the interactions between them.