A dataset of fact-checked images shared on whatsapp during the brazilian and indian elections

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Reis, JCS; Melo, P; Garimella, K; Almeida, JM; Eckles, D; ... Show more
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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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2020-01-01
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135274
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Sloan School of Management; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2020
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