ReCOVery: COVID-19 News Credibility Repository
ReCOVery: 2,029 news articles about COVID-19 from 55 distinct publisher names (the README says the articles were collected from 22 reliable and 38 unreliable websites), published 2020-01-21 to 2020-05-25, with the full body text, URL, publisher, authors, head image, political bias and country of the source and a reliability label (reliable (1,364), unreliable (665)), and 140,820 IDs of tweets that shared 1,747 of the articles (tweet IDs only). By Xinyi Zhou, Apurva Mulay, Emilio Ferrara and Reza Zafarani for CIKM 2020.
Cite this dataset at
recovery-covid-news.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 142,849 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
recovery- Authors
- Zhou, Xinyi; Mulay, Apurva; Ferrara, Emilio; Zafarani, Reza
- Year
- 2020
- Source paper
- ReCOVery: A Multimodal Repository for COVID-19 News Credibility Research
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/3340531.3412880
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 142,849
- Nodes
- 142,849
- Edges
- 140,820 (directed)
- Nodes are
- article / tweet
- Edges are
- article-tweet link
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
- Text corpus
- news article text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2020 (2020s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://github.com/apurvamulay/ReCOVery link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-11-03, 14.1 MB across 4 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (2,029 rows), annotations (2,029 rows), ids (140,820 rows).
- Structure
- Labelled data, Text
Citations
ReCOVery: A Multimodal Repository for COVID-19 News Credibility Research
Xinyi Zhou, Apurva Mulay, Emilio Ferrara, R. Zafarani
Journal Article · International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management · 2020
Cited by
- Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
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Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar et al. · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2020 · cited 188× - Characterizing COVID-19 Misinformation Communities Using a Novel Twitter Dataset
Shahan Ali Memon, Kathleen M. Carley · International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management · 2020 · cited 185× - Deep learning for fake news detection: A comprehensive survey
Linmei Hu, Siqi Wei et al. · AI Open · 2022 · cited 175× - Applications of artificial intelligence in battling against covid-19: A literature review
Mohammad-H. Tayarani N. · Chaos, Solitons & Fractals · 2020 · cited 166×
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Kadhim Hayawi, Sakib Shahriar et al. · Public Health · 2021 · cited 157× - Multimodal fake news detection through data augmentation-based contrastive learning
Jiaheng Hua, Xiao-Dong Cui et al. · Applied Soft Computing · 2023 · cited 145× - Memory-Guided Multi-View Multi-Domain Fake News Detection
Yongchun Zhu, Qiang Sheng et al. · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 2022 · cited 144× - COVID-19 on Social Media: Analyzing Misinformation in Twitter Conversations
Karishma Sharma, Sungyong Seo et al. · 2020 · cited 136× - Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi et al. · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2020 · cited 116×
Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inproceedings{Zhou_2020,
series = {CIKM ’20},
title = {ReCOVery: A Multimodal Repository for COVID-19 News Credibility Research},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3412880},
doi = {10.1145/3340531.3412880},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management},
publisher = {ACM},
author = {Zhou, Xinyi and Mulay, Apurva and Ferrara, Emilio and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2020},
month = Oct,
pages = {3205–3212},
collection = {CIKM ’20}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Zhou, X., Mulay, A., Ferrara, E., & Zafarani, R. (2020). ReCOVery: COVID-19 News Credibility Repository [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3412880
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Zhou, Xinyi, et al. ReCOVery: COVID-19 News Credibility Repository. 2020, doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3412880.