FaCov Dataset: COVID-19 Viral News and Rumors Fact-Check Articles Dataset

The data were collected by web-scraping pages from the websites collected earlier, using the Web Scraper browser extension.

More specifically, the sections of these websites that dealt exclusively with COVID-19 related content were scraped. In cases where the website did not have such a specified section, the search functionality within the website was used to query terms related to COVID-19 and the articles in the search results were scraped. Also in some cases, all articles were scraped and those unrelated to COVID-19 were filtered out in the pre-processing stage. All the samples collected were then put together into one CSV

The following information was extracted along with the articles:

Title of the fact check article

URL of the fact check article

Claim being discussed in the article (if available)

Summary of the fact check article (if available)

Content of the fact check article• Label assigned by the article to the claim

Author of the fact check article (if available)

Date of publication of the article (if available)