Fake News on Healthcare

The Internet is a vast repository of useful knowledge, but it has been contaminated by the spread of false information. Relying on misinformation can be disastrous. According to a World Health Organization survey, about 6,000 individuals were hospitalised throughout the world as a result of fake news on COVID-19 in the first three months of 2020. During this time span, at least 800 individuals have died as a result of COVID-19 misrepresentation. Fake news datasets in healthcare, on the other hand, are rare, small, and extremely unbalanced in academia. This paper presents a curated dataset on fake news in the healthcare domain.

互联网是海量有用知识的宝库，但已因虚假信息的传播而受到污染。依赖错误信息可能带来灾难性后果。根据世界卫生组织（World Health Organization）的调查，2020年前三个月，全球约有6000人因新冠病毒（COVID-19）相关假新闻入院治疗。同期，至少有800人因新冠病毒虚假信息而死亡。然而，学术界中医疗健康领域的假新闻数据集十分稀缺、规模较小且极度不平衡。本文提出了一个医疗健康领域假新闻的精选数据集。