News Media Bias Plus (2024)

Multi-modal image and text bias classification dataset (The Vector Institute)

90k rows | 2024 | The Vector Institute

The dataset includes around 90,000 news articles, curated from a broad spectrum of reliable sources, including major news outlets from around the globe, from May 2023 to September 2024. These articles were gathered through open data sources using Google RSS, adhering to research ethics guidelines.

NMB+ has images, and multi-modal labels for the text + image pair of each news article.

📑 Contents

Field	Description
unique_id	Unique identifier for each news item. Each unique_id is associated with the image (top image) for the same news article.
outlet	Publisher of the news article.
headline	Headline of the news article.
article_text	Full text content of the news article.
image_description	Description of the image paired with the article.
image	File path of the image associated with the article.
date_published	Publication date of the news article.
source_url	Original URL of the news article.
canonical_link	Canonical URL of the news article, if different from the source URL.
new_categories	Categories assigned to the article.
news_categories_confidence_scores	Confidence scores for the assigned categories.
text_label	Annotation for the textual content, indicating: 'Likely'or 'Unlikely'to be disinformation.
multimodal_label	Annotation for the combined text snippet (first paragraph of the news story) and image content, assessing: 'Likely'or 'Unlikely'to be disinformation.

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New multimodal dataset will help in the development of ethical AI systems - Vector Institute for Artificial IntelligenceVector Institute for Artificial Intelligence