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FACTors: A New Dataset for Studying the Fact-checking Ecosystem

Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Our fight against false information is spearheaded by fact-checkers. They investigate the veracity of claims and document their findings as fact-checking reports. With the rapid increase in the amount of false information circulating online, the use of automation in fact-checking processes aims to strengthen this ecosystem by enhancing scalability. Datasets containing fact-checked claims play a key role in developing such automated solutions. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no fact-checking dataset at the ecosystem level, covering claims from a sufficiently long period of time and sourced from a wide range of actors reflecting the entire ecosystem that admittedly follows widely-accepted codes and principles of fact-checking.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4412378039
FWCI: 17.16
Cites: 36
Cited by: 5
Related to: 10