Rumors dataset

This deception dataset was created using PHEME dataset from

https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/PHEME_dataset_of_rumours_and_non-rumours/4010619/1

was used in creation of this dataset. We took source tweets only, and ignored replies to them. We used source tweet's label as being a rumour or non-rumour to label it as deceptive or non-deceptive.

Cleaning

The dataset has been cleaned using cleanlab with visual inspection of problems found. No issues were identified. Duplicate entries, entries of length less than 2 characters or exceeding 1000000 characters were removed.

Preprocessing

Whitespace, quotes, bulletpoints, unicode is normalized.

Data

The dataset consists of "text" (string) and "is_deceptive" (1,0). 1 means the text is deceptive, 0 indicates otherwise.

There are 5789 samples in the dataset, contained in tweeter_rumours.jsonl. For reproduceability, the data is also split into training, test, and validation sets in 80/10/10 ratio. They are named train.jsonl, test.jsonl, valid.jsonl. The sampling process was stratified. The training set contains 4631 samples, the validation and the test sets have 579 samles each.