Datasets:

mediabiasgroup
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mbib-base

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072-9268	To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper proof photo ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram	72
072-6808	Marco Rubio made it clear Not only does he think Donald Trump is a con man hewent on to say he doesnt trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes	72
072-5150	Ben Carson is running for president to eliminate dependency on government But he doesnt mention that he grew up in public schools got public housing and food stamps got free glasses from a government program was helped by Affirmative Action and got Pell Grants for college	72
072-11817	There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips because of sequestration	72
072-7176	Leticia Van de Putte voted to stop schools from removing teachers convicted of a felony	72
072-7159	Says U S Senate rival Tommy Thompson said he wants to do away with Medicare	72
072-3591	Says Democratic challenger Russ Feingold was the deciding vote on Obamacare	72
072-8756	Obamacare has caused millions of full time jobs to become part time	72
072-5946	Our own National Security Agency says that Iran s nuclear ambitions are advancing and at the same time we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal	72
072-4785	Says none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans appeared on the GAOs list of government programs at high risk of waste fraud and abuse	72
072-1709	The so called defense minister of the Peoples Republic of Donetsk actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport And then when it became apparent it was civilian they pulled it down from social media	72
072-9959	Elizabeth Townsend runs the elections office that omitted a school board race on a ballot and gave a School Board candidate faulty advice	72
072-11008	The medical marijuana ballot initiative doesnt require a physician writing a prescription and can be for conditions like having a back that needs to be scratched	72
072-3322	More than 90 percent of the gains have gone to the top 1 percent	72
072-906	Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws	72
072-1376	The insurance commissioner cant do squat about health care	72
072-7996	Every survey shows strong satisfaction with private coverage	72
072-7875	The Georgia Secretary of States Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud	72
072-3482	We cut a record 15 billion from our state budget	72
072-9875	I had an uncle who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps	72
072-2350	Prior to 1962 everybody prayed before school started and the Bible was the principal textbook in all schools	72
072-3906	There are many studies that indicate that the longer people get unemployment insurance it provides some disincentive to work	72
072-8165	The Children s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children	72
072-10084	Following the 2009 session Texas House Speaker Joe Straus was acknowledged and thanked for his tireless efforts by Planned Parenthood the nations premier abortion provider	72
072-126	Tell me what Madeleine Albrights position was on the War on Iraq I wouldnt be surprised if she supported it	72
072-1494	Says that in the 1985 election former Gov Tom Kean had the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history	72
072-2195	Under President George W Bush the U S had 52 months of uninterrupted job creation and revenues were at an all time high in 2007	72
072-10053	A Republican led softening of firearms training rules means that untrained individuals would be allowed to carry guns with a state permit	72
072-12391	A president must obtain Congress consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize	72
072-4699	The decision to remove Chick fil A from Emory University was based solely on student feedback	72
072-2035	If youre a Mexican you get sent back But if youre from a noncontiguous country like the Central American countries then you can stay in the United States	72
072-11420	Says since 2000 Austins tax burden rose more than 40 percent while family income rose more than 20 percent	72
072-2764	In the past three years we have prosecuted or brought more cases on access to public records than in the previous 12 years combined	72
072-66	The CBOs latest report confirms what Republicans have been saying for years now Under Obamacare millions of hardworking Americans will lose their jobs	72
072-4380	America owns 3 percent of the worlds oil but consumes 25 percent of its global reserves	72
072-2154	American homeownership rate in Q2 2016 was 62 9 lowest rate in 51yrs	72
072-12306	Says the state is required pick up 70 percent of the cost of K 12 education	72
072-11079	The Bush era tax cuts failed to increase employment and work force participation fell in 2001 and has never returned to the record level set in 2000	72
072-4075	Ninety five percent of the money used for union operated worker training centers comes from employers	72
072-11637	Says hes taken an 8 pay decrease in each of the nine years he has been in office	72
072-4696	Says Newt Gingrich said Spanish is the language of the ghetto	72
072-11982	Says hes arrested more criminals including thousands of child predators and sex offenders than any previous Texas attorney general	72
072-12402	The federal budget bill reauthorizes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation which provides taxpayer dollars so that the Four Seasons hotel can build a resort in Turkey	72
072-360	Arizona is spending less on a per capita basis than every single state in this country in higher education	72
072-5659	On Tom Wolfs watch taxes were high killing 100 000 PA jobs	72
072-3558	A data system that goes along with Common Core is designed to collect up to 400 data points on each child which can include personally identifiable data	72
072-3262	Because of the new health care law 17 million kids can no longer be denied for a pre existing condition	72
072-7231	Huckabee granted 1 033 pardons and commutations more clemencies than the previous three governors combined	72
072-170	Because of violence spreading from Mexico youve got bullets hitting the city hall in El Paso Youve got bombs exploding in El Paso	72
072-10619	McCain s plan for the economy is to extend George Bush s tax cuts for billionaires and give a 100 billion additional corporate tax cut	72
072-12759	Obamacare was the Republican plan in the early 90s	72
072-6724	The city of Richmond built the second richest team in the NFL a 14 million stadium	72
072-4608	Says at the state level were spending more on tax expenditures than we are on public safety health care and education combined	72
072-2031	The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10 The federal debt is now over 100 000 per household	72
072-4899	In some states it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she s been the victim of domestic violence	72
072-5530	Social Security doesnt contribute a penny to the deficit	72
072-10222	53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs	72
072-2726	A bill before the Georgia General Assembly would make presidential candidates meet citizenship requirements that are not in the U S Constitution	72
072-8971	The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history	72
072-8774	Travis County is surrounded by red counties	72
072-1216	The richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a 29 000 a year worker	72
072-9221	More people hunt and fish in Texas in a given year than attend the games of the Dallas Cowboys the Dallas Mavericks the Houston Texans and the Houston Rockets combined	72
072-6339	Ted Cruz is unknown to the vast majority of Texans	72
072-4481	The Nordic countries are some of the few countries that meet development aid goals	72
072-3033	The vast majority of people in this country are keeping their health insurance plan	72
072-10306	Compact fluorescent light bulbs are toxic and not environmentally friendly	72
072-812	Ohio taxpayers spent more than 67 million for the year on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal Mart workers	72
072-9152	Every 20 seconds a child dies because they lack access to clean water and sanitation	72
072-4120	She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action	72
072-3428	The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is equivalent to about three minutes worth of air travel by anybody say at 30 000 feet	72
072-5568	According to the Congressional Budget Office as many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer based insurance thanks to Obamacare	72
072-10258	Barack Obama will raise Social Security taxes	72
072-9961	The Islamic State or ISIS was cast off by al Qaida because it was considered too extreme	72
072-4922	In the year 2013 the Obama administration released 104 000 criminal illegal aliens They released 196 murderers people with homicide convictions who are here illegally	72
072-5681	Trey Radel does not even qualify to drive a Lee County school bus at this point yet he occupies a seat in Congress	72
072-6913	Says U S Senate candidate Tommy Thompson says hell do away with Medicare	72
072-2832	Says Romney had the uniforms for the 2002 Winter Olympic games made in Burma	72
072-3497	Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W Bush proposed it It s a bad idea today Sen McCain s campaign went even further suggesting to cut cost of living adjustments or to raise the retirement age	72
072-12456	If sea levels rise six feet due to climate change Waterplace Park in Providence and Wickford village would be swamped	72
072-7351	At the same time gas prices have increased the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years	72
072-12679	It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harms way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell said What difference at this point does it make	72
072-11325	During the Bush administration liberal groups were targeted by the IRS similar to recent targeting	72
072-11474	You dont have to be as smart as a fifth grader to know what causes the climate is the sun The sun I have people tell me Carbon dioxide warms the Earth No it doesnt The sun warms the Earth	72
072-11798	Says when this governor came to office he had an 11 billion dollar I call it mismanagement deficit	72
072-6	Says Tennessee is providing millions of dollars to virtual school company for results at the bottom of the bottom	72
072-9180	Says she made an accurate prediction that if Barack Obama were elected it would encourage Russia to invade Ukraine	72
072-2566	The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers 146 million annually	72
072-12299	A majority of Americans agree with a ban on assault weapons And by the way so did Ronald Reagan	72
072-11833	6 400 Ohioans lost manufacturing jobs in the month of September	72
072-12003	The average age of the minimum wage worker is 35 years old	72
072-11046	Says the reasoning behind Portlands high water and sewer rates is all kinds of pet projects unrelated to the core function of the water and sewer bureaus	72
072-9277	On running for the U S Senate as an independent	72
072-2863	Independent analysts found that Trumps tax plan given to the wealthy and big corporations would rack up 30 trillion in debt	72
072-8013	Congress is on a five week vacation	72
072-7705	In the late 1980s the U S was nearly the lowest taxed nation in the world and a quarter century later were nearly the highest	72
072-8413	Says Donald Trump says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia	72
072-12719	Republicans dont think its a good idea to make the child care tax credit stronger	72
072-1526	Twenty percent of housing in Portlands Pearl District is affordable	72
072-10608	Says Ronald Reagan understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases	72
072-7044	No one knows who bought the 38 Studios bonds And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous	72

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Dataset Card for Media-Bias-Identification-Benchmark

Baseline

Task	Model	Micro F1	Macro F1
cognitive-bias	ConvBERT/ConvBERT	0.7126	0.7664
fake-news	Bart/RoBERTa-T	0.6811	0.7533
gender-bias	RoBERTa-T/ELECTRA	0.8334	0.8211
hate-speech	RoBERTA-T/Bart	0.8897	0.7310
linguistic-bias	ConvBERT/Bart	0.7044	0.4995
political-bias	ConvBERT/ConvBERT	0.7041	0.7110
racial-bias	ConvBERT/ELECTRA	0.8772	0.6170
text-leve-bias	ConvBERT/ConvBERT	0.7697	0.7532

Languages

All datasets are in English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

cognitive-bias

An example of one training instance looks as follows.

{
  "text": "A defense bill includes language that would require military hospitals to provide abortions on demand",
  "label": 1
}

Data Fields

text: a sentence from various sources (eg., news articles, twitter, other social media).
label: binary indicator of bias (0 = unbiased, 1 = biased)

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

We believe that MBIB offers a new common ground for research in the domain, especially given the rising amount of (research) attention directed toward media bias

Citation Information

@inproceedings{
    title = {Introducing MBIB - the first Media Bias Identification Benchmark Task and Dataset Collection},
    author = {Wessel, Martin and Spinde, Timo and Horych, Tomáš and Ruas, Terry and Aizawa, Akiko and Gipp, Bela},
    year = {2023},
    note = {[in review]}
}