4.1 Fake News (Text Classification)

The fake news dataset is a collection of news articles from the Kaggle Fake News Challenge and is used to predict whether a news article is real or fake.

• id: unique id for a news article
• title: the title of a news article
• author: author of the news article
• text: the text of the article; could be incomplete
• label: a label that marks the article as potentially unreliable
  • 1: fake
  • 0: true

##                                                title  label
## 0  House Dem Aide: We Didn’t Even See Comey’s Let...      1
## 1  FLYNN: Hillary Clinton, Big Woman on Campus - ...      0
## 2                  Why the Truth Might Get You Fired      1
## 3  15 Civilians Killed In Single US Airstrike Hav...      1
## 4  Iranian woman jailed for fictional unpublished...      1
## 5  Jackie Mason: Hollywood Would Love Trump if He...      0
## 6  Life: Life Of Luxury: Elton John’s 6 Favorite ...      1
## 7  Benoît Hamon Wins French Socialist Party’s Pre...      0
## 8  Excerpts From a Draft Script for Donald Trump’...      0
## 9  A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Co...      0