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A Dataset of Fact-Checked Images Shared on WhatsApp During the Brazilian and Indian Elections

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arxiv 2005.02443 v1 pith:J5EGDXYY submitted 2020-05-05 cs.CY cs.SI

Julio C. S. Reis , Philipe de Freitas Melo , Kiran Garimella , Jussara M. Almeida , Dean Eckles , Fabrício Benevenuto This is my paper · ORCID
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Recently, messaging applications, such as WhatsApp, have been reportedly abused by misinformation campaigns, especially in Brazil and India. A notable form of abuse in WhatsApp relies on several manipulated images and memes containing all kinds of fake stories. In this work, we performed an extensive data collection from a large set of WhatsApp publicly accessible groups and fact-checking agency websites. This paper opens a novel dataset to the research community containing fact-checked fake images shared through WhatsApp for two distinct scenarios known for the spread of fake news on the platform: the 2018 Brazilian elections and the 2019 Indian elections.

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