DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24422122.v4
title: Navigating News Narratives: A Media Bias Analysis Dataset

description: The prevalence of bias in the news media has become a critical issue, affecting public perception on a range of important topics such as political views, health, insurance, resource distributions, religion, race, age, gender, occupation, and climate change. The media has a moral responsibility to ensure accurate information dissemination and to increase awareness about important issues and the potential risks associated with them. This highlights the need for a solution that can help mitigate against the spread of false or misleading information and restore public trust in the media.<b>Data description: </b>This is a dataset for news media bias covering different dimensions of the biases: political, hate speech, political, toxicity, sexism, ageism, gender identity, gender discrimination, race/ethnicity, climate change, occupation, spirituality, which makes it a unique contribution. The dataset used for this project does not contain any personally identifiable information (PII).The data structure is tabulated as follows:<b>Text</b>: The main content.<b>Dimension</b>: Descriptive category of the text.<b>Biased_Words</b>: A compilation of words regarded as biased.<b>Aspect</b>: Specific sub-topic within the main content.<b>Label</b>: Indicates the presence (True) or absence (False) of bias. The label is ternary - highly biased, slightly biased and neutral<b>Toxicity</b>: Indicates the presence (True) or absence (False) of bias.<b>Identity_mention</b>: Mention of any identity based on words match.Annotation SchemeThe labels and annotations in the dataset are generated through a system of Active Learning, cycling through:Manual LabelingSemi-Supervised LearningHuman VerificationThe scheme comprises:<b>Bias Label</b>: Specifies the degree of bias (e.g., no bias, mild, or strong).<b>Words/Phrases Level Biases</b>: Pinpoints specific biased terms or phrases.<b>Subjective Bias (Aspect)</b>: Highlights biases pertinent to content dimensions.<i>Due to the nuances of semantic match algorithms, certain labels such as 'identity' and 'aspect' may appear distinctively different.</i><br><b>List of datasets used : </b>We curated different news categories like Climate crisis news summaries , occupational, spiritual/faith/ general using RSS to capture different dimensions of the news media biases. The annotation is performed using active learning to label the sentence (either neural/ slightly biased/ highly biased) and to pick biased words from the news.We also utilize publicly available data from the following links. Our Attribution to others.<b>MBIC (media bias): </b>Spinde, Timo, Lada Rudnitckaia, Kanishka Sinha, Felix Hamborg, Bela Gipp, and Karsten Donnay. "MBIC--A Media Bias Annotation Dataset Including Annotator Characteristics." arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11910 (2021). https://zenodo.org/records/4474336<b>Hyperpartisan news: </b>Kiesel, Johannes, Maria Mestre, Rishabh Shukla, Emmanuel Vincent, Payam Adineh, David Corney, Benno Stein, and Martin Potthast. "Semeval-2019 task 4: Hyperpartisan news detection." In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pp. 829-839. 2019. https://huggingface.co/datasets/hyperpartisan_news_detection<b>Toxic comment classification: </b>Adams, C.J., Jeffrey Sorensen, Julia Elliott, Lucas Dixon, Mark McDonald, Nithum, and Will Cukierski. 2017. "Toxic Comment Classification Challenge." Kaggle. https://kaggle.com/competitions/jigsaw-toxic-comment-classification-challenge.<b>Jigsaw Unintended Bias: </b>Adams, C.J., Daniel Borkan, Inversion, Jeffrey Sorensen, Lucas Dixon, Lucy Vasserman, and Nithum. 2019. "Jigsaw Unintended Bias in Toxicity Classification." Kaggle. https://kaggle.com/competitions/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification.<b>Age Bias : </b>Díaz, Mark, Isaac Johnson, Amanda Lazar, Anne Marie Piper, and Darren Gergle. "Addressing age-related bias in sentiment analysis." In Proceedings of the 2018 chi conference on human factors in computing systems, pp. 1-14. 2018. Age Bias Training and Testing Data - Age Bias and Sentiment Analysis Dataverse (harvard.edu)<b>Multi-dimensional news Ukraine: </b>Färber, Michael, Victoria Burkard, Adam Jatowt, and Sora Lim. "A multidimensional dataset based on crowdsourcing for analyzing and detecting news bias." In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, pp. 3007-3014. 2020. https://zenodo.org/records/3885351#.ZF0KoxHMLtV<b>Social biases: </b>Sap, Maarten, Saadia Gabriel, Lianhui Qin, Dan Jurafsky, Noah A. Smith, and Yejin Choi. "Social bias frames: Reasoning about social and power implications of language." arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03891 (2019). https://maartensap.com/social-bias-frames/<br><b>Goal of this dataset :</b>We want to offer open and free access to dataset, ensuring a wide reach to researchers and AI practitioners across the world. The dataset should be user-friendly to use and uploading and accessing data should be straightforward, to facilitate usage.<b>If you use this dataset, please cite us.</b>Navigating News Narratives: A Media Bias Analysis Dataset © 2023 by Shaina Raza, Vector Institute is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0<br>