Kai Nakamura, Sharon Levy, and William Yang Wang. 2019. Fakeddit: novel large multimodal fine-grained dataset for automatic fake news detection. It's not a subreddit. It's named Fakeddit because Fake News + Reddit = Fakeddit
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Our lab: http://nlp.cs.ucsb.edu/index.html
Follow the instructions to download the dataset. You can download text, metadata, and image data.
script tested on python 3.5
Follow the steps here to obtain client_id, client_secret, and user_agent
Download text and metadata
$ git clone https://github.com/entitize/Fakeddit.git
Download image data Install required python libraries
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Run image downloader
$ python image_downloader.py type client_id client_secret user_agent
substitute type with either train or validate
substitute client_id, client_scret and user_agent with your own values
If you encounter an error, make sure the command line parameters you set don't have any ( or ) or any other funny characters