MM COVID: A Multilingual and Multimodal Data Repository for Combating COVID 19 Disinformation
The COVID 19 epidemic is considered as the global health crisis of the whole society and the greatest challenge mankind faced since World War Two. Unfortunately, the fake news about COVID 19 is spreading as fast as the virus itself. The incorrect health measurements, anxiety, and hate speeches will have bad consequences on people's physical health, as well as their mental health in the whole world. To help better combat the COVID 19 fake news, we propose a new fake news detection dataset MM COVID(Multilingual and Multidimensional COVID 19 Fake News Data Repository) This dataset provides the multilingual fake news and the relevant social context. We collect 3981 pieces of fake news content and 7192 trustworthy information from English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, French and Italian, 6 different languages. We present a detailed and exploratory analysis of MM COVID from different perspectives and demonstrate the utility of MM COVID in several potential applications of COVID 19 fake news study on multilingual and social media.
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