Paper ID: 2210.05401

Not Good Times for Lies: Misinformation Detection on the Russia-Ukraine War, COVID-19, and Refugees

Cagri Toraman, Oguzhan Ozcelik, Furkan Şahinuç, Fazli Can

Misinformation spread in online social networks is an urgent-to-solve problem having harmful consequences that threaten human health, public safety, economics, and so on. In this study, we construct a novel dataset, called MiDe-22, having 5,284 English and 5,064 Turkish tweets with their misinformation labels under several recent events, including the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID-19 pandemic, and Refugees. Moreover, we provide the user engagements to the tweets in terms of likes, replies, retweets, and quotes. We present a detailed data analysis with descriptive statistics and temporal analysis, and provide the experimental results of a benchmark evaluation for misinformation detection on our novel dataset.

Submitted: Oct 11, 2022