Introduced in A Multi-Modal Method for Satire Detection using Textual and Visual Cues2020
The satire dataset is a new multi-modal dataset of satirical and regular news articles. The satirical news is collected from four websites that explicitly declare themselves to be satire, and the regular news is collected from six mainstream news websites. Specifically, the satirical news websites the articles were collected from are The Babylon Bee, Clickhole, Waterford Whisper News, and The DailyER. The regular news websites are Reuters, The Hill, Politico, New York Post, Huffington Post, and Vice News. The headlines and the thumbnail images of the latest 1000 articles for each of the publications are collected. The dataset contains a total of 4000 satirical and 6000 regular news articles.
Source: A Multi-Modal Method for Satire Detection using Textual and Visual Cues
