# Fake News

We post-process and split Fake News dataset to ensure uniformity with Political Statements 2.0 and Twitter Rumours as they all go into form GDDS-2.0

## Cleaning 

Each dataset has been cleaned using Cleanlab. Non-english entries, erroneous (parser error) entries, empty entries, duplicate entries, entries of length less than 2 characters or exceeding 1000000 characters were all 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 20456 samples in the dataset, contained in `phishing.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 16364 samples, the validation and the test sets have 2064 and 2064 samles, respectively.