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The corpus contains samples of both fake and real news in English, collected from the fact-checking website PolitiFact.com. It grew out of a need for a more controlled and effective dataset for fake news analysis and detection model development based on recent events. Three features make it uniquely placed for this: (i) the texts have been individually labelled for veracity by experts, (ii) they are complete texts that strictly correspond to the claims in question, and (iii) they are accompanied by important metadata such as text type (e.g., social media, news and blog). In relation to this, we present a pipeline for collecting quality data from major fact-checking websites, a procedure which can be replicated in future corpus building efforts. An exploratory analysis based on sentiment and part-of-speech information reveals interesting differences between fake and real news as well as between text types, thus highlighting the importance of adding contextual information to fake news corpora. Since the main application of the PolitiFact-Oslo Corpus is in automatic fake news detection, we critically examine the applicability of the corpus and another PolitiFact dataset built based on less strict criteria for various deep learning-based efficient approaches, such as Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM), LSTM fine-tuned transformers such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and RoBERTa, and XLNet.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info14120627","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,23]],"date-time":"2023-11-23T03:45:56Z","timestamp":1700711156000},"page":"627","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["The PolitiFact-Oslo Corpus: A New Dataset for Fake News Analysis and Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6921-4408","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nele","family":"P\u00f5ldvere","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5215-1834","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zia","family":"Uddin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sintef Digital, 0373 Oslo, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aleena","family":"Thomas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sintef Digital, 0373 Oslo, Norway"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Newman, N., Fletcher, R., Schulz, A., Andi, S., Robertson, C.T., and Nielsen, R.K. 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