| # RealFakeNews: A Dataset for Detecting Fake News | |
| **RealFakeNews** is a dataset of over **108,000 news samples**, created to support the development of models that detect misinformation. Each entry contains a short news article along with a label indicating whether it’s **real** or **fake**. | |
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| ## What's in the Dataset? | |
| - **Samples**: 108,032 | |
| - **Columns**: | |
| - `text`: News content (string) | |
| - `label`: Classification label (string: `REAL` or `FAKE`) | |
| - **Language**: English | |
| - **Format**: CSV | |
| - **License**: [CC BY‑NC‑SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) | |
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| ## Label Distribution | |
| | Label | Meaning | Count | | |
| |-------|------------|---------| | |
| | REAL | Real News | 64,641 | | |
| | FAKE | Fake News | 43,391 | | |
| > The dataset is slightly imbalanced, with more real news than fake news entries. | |
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| ## Use Cases | |
| - Fake news classification | |
| - NLP experiments on misinformation | |
| - Training and fine‑tuning transformers (e.g., BERT, RoBERTa) | |
| - Evaluation using classification metrics like Accuracy, F1-score, ROC-AUC | |
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| ## Sample Entry | |
| ```json | |
| { | |
| "text": "From India Censoring Internet Archive To No Night On Aug 12: Not Real....No! Banks are NOT charging Rs 150 after 4 transactions on...", | |
| "label": "FAKE" | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
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| ## ⚠️ Warning | |
| - **Misinformation Risk**: This dataset includes content labeled as "FAKE" that may contain false or misleading information. Even "REAL" entries may not be fully accurate or current. | |
| - **Not for Automated Fact-Checking**: Models trained using this dataset should not be used to make critical decisions or perform real-world fact-checking without human oversight. | |
| - **Potential Bias**: While the data comes from a range of sources, biases may still exist in topic selection, language, or cultural framing. | |
| - **Research & Educational Use Only**: This dataset is intended strictly for non-commercial research and educational purposes. Commercial use requires separate permission. | |
| > Use this dataset responsibly and with awareness of its limitations. | |