Fake News Detection Dataset
A News Articles (multiple sources) dataset of 9,900 news articles (5,000 fake, 4,900 real), collected by Vishakh Dapat via Kaggle (2023). Each record contains full article text and binary veracity label (Fake or Real). The dataset is notable for its balanced binary-labeled news corpus with approximately equal proportions of fake and real articles, making it well-suited as a classification benchmark. Intended for research into fake news detection, text classification benchmarking, misinformation topic modeling, and NLP feature engineering.
Cite this dataset at
fake-news-detection.echo.directory
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Record
- Catalog key
fake-news-detection- Authors
- Dapat, Vishakh
- Year
- 2023
- Source paper
- Fake News Detection: The Battle Against Misinformation
- License
- MIT (MIT)
- Records
- 9,900
- Text corpus
- article text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2016-2023 (2010s, 2020s)
- Tasks
- Fake news detection (binary;
is_fake) inferred
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/vishakhdapat/fake-news-detection unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 24.7 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{dapat2023fakenews,
title = {Fake News Detection: The Battle Against Misinformation},
author = {Dapat, Vishakh},
year = {2023},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/vishakhdapat/fake-news-detection}}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Dapat, V. (2023). Fake News Detection Dataset [Data set]. https://fake-news-detection.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Dapat, Vishakh. Fake News Detection Dataset. 2023, fake-news-detection.echo.directory/.