ArabicFakeNewsDataset

The first large Arabic fake news corpus consists of 606912 articles collected from 134 Arabic online news sources. An Arabic fact-check platform is used to annotate news sources as credible, not-credible, and undecided.

The details of the selected news sources are stored in a single JSON file. Each online news source has a key and value. The key is the source name and the value is a dictionary that contains the source label and two lists. The first list has the RSS website links and the second one has the website links of the local news pages. The news articles in the Arabic language are stored in 134 JSON files. Each file corresponds to each source and contains the details of each news article which includes the headline, news content, publish date, and the article link.