German Fake News Dataset "GermanFakeNC"

"GermanFakeNC" is a German Fake News Corpus including 490 texts which were retrieved from German alternative online media sources. Every fake statement in the text was verified claim-by-claim by authoritative sources (e.g. from local police authorities, scientific studies, the police press office, etc.). The time interval for most of the news is established from December 2015 to March 2018.

Steps to reproduce the data are described in the README file.

Please cite:

@inproceedings{TPDL_Vogel19,
  author    = {Inna Vogel and
               Peter Jiang},
  title     = {Fake News Detection with the New German Dataset "GermanFakeNC"},
  booktitle = {Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge - 23rd International Conference
               on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, {TPDL} 2019, Oslo, Norway,
               September 9-12, 2019, Proceedings},
  pages     = {288--295},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8\_25},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8\_25},
}