Written and spoken corpus of real and fake social media postings about COVID-19

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04237v1
• Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 13:21:04 GMT
• Title: Written and spoken corpus of real and fake social media postings about COVID-19
• Authors: Ng Bee Chin, Ng Zhi Ee Nicole, Kyla Kwan, Lee Yong Han Dylann, Liu Fang, Xu Hong
• Abstract summary: The data was analysed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software to detect patterns in linguistic data. The results indicate a set of linguistic features that distinguish fake news from real news in both written and speech data.
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• Abstract: This study investigates the linguistic traits of fake news and real news. There are two parts to this study: text data and speech data. The text data for this study consisted of 6420 COVID-19 related tweets re-filtered from Patwa et al. (2021). After cleaning, the dataset contained 3049 tweets, with 2161 labeled as 'real' and 888 as 'fake'. The speech data for this study was collected from TikTok, focusing on COVID-19 related videos. Research assistants fact-checked each video's content using credible sources and labeled them as 'Real', 'Fake', or 'Questionable', resulting in a dataset of 91 real entries and 109 fake entries from 200 TikTok videos with a total word count of 53,710 words. The data was analysed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software to detect patterns in linguistic data. The results indicate a set of linguistic features that distinguish fake news from real news in both written and speech data. This offers valuable insights into the role of language in shaping trust, social media interactions, and the propagation of fake news.

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