It includes Breitbart and Drudge Report as fake. Those sites may have a bias you disagree with but no more so than, say, The Daily Kos or Mother Jones.
Can anyone identify any left-of-centre site urls in the list
Can anyone identify any left-of-centre site urls in the list
Completely unsourced material is not news, regardless of if we 'agree' with it. If completely unsourced material is labeled 'news' then this material could reasonably be called 'fake news'.
Did anything like that happen at the sites you name?
At the NYT: "By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative.” We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line."
http://deadline.com/2016/11/shocked-by-trump-new-york-times-...
It looks like they intentionally included right and left-biased partisan news sites as well as right and left-biased hoax sites
I think this is important because any model you train should be able to distinguish between overt bias and actual fakery
Neither Breitbart or Drudge Report are marked as fake in the dataset.