Fake News Spreader Classification - CoAID Extended dataset

This dataset contains a gold standard for the classification of users sharing the misinformation about COVID-19. <br>It presents a list of mapped used id for privacy concerns, the list of real tweet id as retrieved from Twitter and the label classifying the tweet author as spreader or checker. <br>Spreader are users supporting fake news, while checkers are users supporting real news. <br>The list of fake and real news came from the CoAID dataset by Limeng and Dongwon.<br>Data were retrieved from December 1, 2019 to April 1, 2021.<br>For further details look at the paper "Fake News Spreader Automated Classification for Breaking the Misinformation Chain" in the MDPI Information Journal Special Issue "News Research in Social Networks and Social Media", or open an issue in the GitHub repository.<br><br><br>