COVID-19 RUMOR: a classified dataset of COVID-19 related online rumors in Brazilian Portuguese

The dataset is composed of rumors and non-rumors related to COVID-19 collected from three different online sources: (a) the Brazilian Ministry of Health official website, (b) a journalistic initiative named boatos.org focused on debunking online rumors, including COVID-19, and (c) the O Globo news that provides a special track to follow rumors about COVID-19.

The Brazilian Ministry of Health dataset (saude.gov.csv) is composed of 79 rumors and 05 non-rumors texts classified by the own Brazilian government; the boatos.org dataset (boatos.org.csv) is composed of 951 rumors classified and debunked by a team of journalists; and the O Globo dataset (oglobo.com.csv) is composed of 261 rumors and 03 non-rumors also classified by journalists. In total, the COVID-19 RUMOR dataset has 1291 rumors and 08 non-rumors.

本数据集收录了从三类不同在线来源采集的新冠疫情相关谣言与非谣言文本：(a) 巴西卫生部官方网站；(b) 名为boatos.org的辟谣新闻项目，该项目致力于揭穿各类网络谣言，其中涵盖新冠疫情相关内容；(c) 《O Globo》新闻平台，该平台开设了新冠疫情谣言追踪专题栏目。其中，巴西卫生部数据集（saude.gov.csv）包含经巴西官方分类的79条谣言文本与5条非谣言文本；boatos.org数据集（boatos.org.csv）收录了由记者团队甄别并辟谣的951条谣言文本；《O Globo》数据集（oglobo.com.csv）则包含经记者分类的261条谣言文本与3条非谣言文本。综上，本新冠谣言数据集（COVID-19 RUMOR dataset）总计收录1291条谣言文本与8条非谣言文本。