Fake News Dataset from US Region

A dataset containing examples of fake news, created by author Marmoot. The dataset is hosted on Hugging Face and was last updated in March 2022. Its specific content and size are not detailed in the provided metadata.

Use Cases

• Train a binary classifier to predict if a news article is fake using its text content.
• Analyze linguistic patterns and stylistic features in fake news text for feature engineering.
• Fine-tune a language model like BERT for fake news identification using the provided text samples.

Strengths

• Dataset has a specified geographic region tag (US).
• Has a clear last update timestamp from March 2022.

Limitations

• Unknown row count prevents assessment of dataset scale.
• No column names or sample data are provided to verify content structure.

Provenance

Source

Hugging Face user Marmoot.

Collection Method

Collection method is unknown.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated in 2022; may not contain recent examples of fake news.

Geography

United States (inferred from platform tag 'Regionus').