FakeCovid- A Multilingual Cross domain Fact Check Dataset for COVID-19

FakeCovid is the first multilingual cross-domain dataset of 7623 fact-checked news articles for COVID-19, collected from 04/01/2020 to 01/07/2020. We have collected the fact-checked articles from 92 fact-checking websites after obtaining references from Poynter and Snopes. We have manually annotated the collected articles into 11 categories of the fact-checked news according to their content. We ultimately generated dataset is in 40 languages from 105 countries.FakeCovid数据集是首个多语言跨领域新冠疫情事实核查新闻数据集，包含7623篇经事实核查的新闻文章，采集时段为2020年4月1日至2020年7月1日。我们在获取Poynter（波因特媒体研究所）与Snopes（斯努普斯事实核查网站）的参考资料后，从92家事实核查网站（fact-checking websites）收集了上述经事实核查的新闻文章。基于文章内容，我们对采集到的所有文章进行了人工标注，将其划分为11个事实核查新闻类别。最终构建的数据集覆盖40种语言，数据来自105个国家。