COVID-19 has impacted all lives. To maintain social distancing and avoiding exposure, works and lives have gradually moved online. Under this trend, social media usage to obtain COVID-19 news has increased. Alas , misinformation on COVID-19 is frequently spread on social media. In this work, we develop CHECKED, the first Chinese dataset on COVID-19 misinformation. CHECKED provides ground-truth on credibility,carefully obtained by ensuring the specific sources are used. CHECKED includes microblogs related to COVID-19  , identified by using a specific list of keywords  , covering a total 2120 microblogs published from December 2019 to August 2020. The dataset contains a rich set of multimedia information for each microblog including ground-truth label, textual, visual, response, and social network information.  We hope that CHECKED can facilitate studies that target misinformation on coronavirus. The dataset is available at URL with measures of protecting users' privacy.
COVID-19 has impacted all lives. To maintain social distancing and avoiding exposure, works and lives have gradually moved online. Under this trend, social media usage to obtain COVID-19 news has increased. Also , misinformation on COVID-19 is frequently spread on social media. In this work, we develop CHECKED, the first Chinese dataset on COVID-19 misinformation. CHECKED provides a total 2,104 verified microblogs related to COVID-19 from December 2019 to August 2020 , identified by using a specific list of keywords . Correspondingly, CHECKED includes 1 , 868,175 reposts, 1,185,702 comments, and 56,852,736 likes that reveal how these verified microblogs are spread and reacted on Weibo. The dataset contains a rich set of multimedia information for each microblog including ground-truth label, textual, visual, temporal, and network information. Extensive experiments have been conducted to analyze CHECKED data and to provide benchmark results for well-established methods when predicting fake news using CHECKED. We hope that CHECKED can facilitate studies that target misinformation on coronavirus. The dataset is available at URL 
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ground-truth on credibility,carefully obtained by ensuring the specific sources are used. CHECKED includes
a total 2,104 verified
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from December 2019 to August 2020
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. Correspondingly, CHECKED includes 1
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covering a total 2120 microblogs published from December 2019 to August 2020.
868,175 reposts, 1,185,702 comments, and 56,852,736 likes that reveal how these verified microblogs are spread and reacted on Weibo.
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response, and social
temporal, and
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Extensive experiments have been conducted to analyze CHECKED data and to provide benchmark results for well-established methods when predicting fake news using CHECKED.
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with measures of protecting users' privacy.