TY - JOUR AU - Reis, Julio C. S. AU - Melo, Philipe AU - Garimella, Kiran AU - Almeida, Jussara M. AU - Eckles, Dean AU - Benevenuto, Fabrício PY - 2020/05/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Dataset of Fact-Checked Images Shared on WhatsApp During the Brazilian and Indian Elections JF - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media JA - ICWSM VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Dataset Papers DO - 10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7356 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7356 SP - 903-908 AB - <p>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.</p> ER -