DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15620262
title: Truthfulness Stance Detection on Claim-Tweet (TSD-CT)

description: Under the final threshold, TSD-CT contains 5,331 finalized claim-tweet pairs (including 269 screening and training pairs) covering 2,201 unique factual claims. The label distribution is as follows: 2,104 (39.47%) are labeled as Positive, 882 (16.57%) as Neutral/No Stance, 883 (16.54%) as Negative, 309 (5.80%) as Different Topics, and 1,153 (21.62\%) as Problematic. The claim veracity is also diverse, with 722 claims labeled as false (32.80%), 353 as pants-fire (16.04%), 340 as barely-true (15.45%), 292 as half-true (13.27%), 287 as mostly-true (13.04%), and 207 as true (9.40%). On average, each claim–tweet pair contains 34.61 tokens and 261.76 characters. Additionally, 2,169 pairs (40.71%) include at least one hyperlink, indicating external reference or contextual support. Among all the 845 topics, the dataset is dominated by discussions on coronavirus (1,573 pairs; 29.51%) and public health (870; 16.32%), followed by Donald Trump (583; 10.94%), elections (438; 8.22%), economy (390; 7.32%), health care (329; 6.17%), crime (295; 5.54%), government regulation (255; 4.78%), drugs (240; 4.50\%), science (239; 4.49\%) and so on.

Fields/Columns





id:



Type: Integer or String

Description: Unique identifier for each claim or record.





claim_author:



Type: String

Description: The author of the claim.





claim:



Type: String

Description: The text of the claim being analyzed.





tweet:



Type: String (always "REDACTED")

Description: Placeholder for the tweet text, which has been redacted for privacy.





screening:



Type: String or Boolean

Description: Indicates whether the claim has been screened.





answered:



Type: Boolean

Description: Indicates whether the claim has been answered or fact-checked.





tweet_url_title:



Type: String

Description: Title or description of the tweet's URL, if applicable.





claim_timestamp:



Type: DateTime

Description: Timestamp when the claim was made.





tweet_timestamp:



Type: DateTime

Description: Timestamp when the associated tweet was posted.





tweet_id:



Type: String or Integer

Description: Unique identifier for the tweet.





tweet_userhandle:



Type: String

Description: Twitter handle of the user who posted the tweet.





retweet_count:



Type: Integer

Description: Number of retweets for the tweet.





reply_count:



Type: Integer

Description: Number of replies to the tweet.





like_count:



Type: Integer

Description: Number of likes for the tweet.





quote_count:



Type: Integer

Description: Number of quote tweets for the tweet.





claim_source:



Type: String

Description: Source of the claim (e.g., news outlet, individual, etc.).





claim_verdict:



Type: String

Description: Verdict of the claim (e.g., true, false, misleading).





factcheck_timestamp:



Type: DateTime

Description: Timestamp when the claim was fact-checked.





claim_review_summary:



Type: String

Description: Summary of the claim review.





claim_review:



Type: String

Description: Detailed review of the claim.





factcheck_url:



Type: String

Description: URL to the fact-checking article or source.





claim_tags:



Type: List of Strings

Description: Tags or categories associated with the claim.





claimbuster_score:



Type: Float

Description: Score assigned by ClaimBuster, indicating the claim's importance or likelihood of being fact-checked.





pair_id:



Type: String or Integer

Description: Identifier for paired records (e.g., claim and fact-check).





factcheck_author_url:



Type: String

Description: URL to the profile of the fact-checking author.





factcheck_post_time:



Type: DateTime

Description: Time when the fact-checking post was published.





factcheck_author_info:



Type: String

Description: Information about the fact-checking author.





subset:



Type: String

Description: Subset or category of the dataset (e.g., training, testing, validation).





annotator_agreement:



Type: Float or String

Description: Claim-tweet pair label. One of Positive (1), Neutral/No Stance (0), Negative (-1), Different Topics (2), Problematic (3).