CoAID: COVID-19 Healthcare Misinformation
A CoAID (COVID-19 misinformation dataset) dataset of 5,975 news articles and social media posts, collected by Cui and Lee via COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021). Each record contains news articles, fact-check URLs, binary label (0=real, 1=fake), and temporal data. The dataset is notable for its temporally-structured dataset tracking COVID-19 misinformation evolution. Intended for research into COVID-19 misinformation detection, healthcare communication, and temporal social media analysis.
Cite this dataset at
coaid.echo.directory
Analytics
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
coaid- Authors
- Cui, Limeng; Lee, Dongwon
- Year
- 2020
- Source paper
- CoAID: COVID-19 Healthcare Misinformation Dataset
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.48550/arXiv.2006.00885
- License
- Academic use (see GitHub) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 5,975
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2020-2021 (2020s)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://github.com/cuilimeng/CoAID link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 14.1 MB across 43 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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}
}
@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2006.00885,
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2006.00885},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00885},
author = {Cui, Limeng and Lee, Dongwon},
keywords = {Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), Computation and Language (cs.CL), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
title = {CoAID: COVID-19 Healthcare Misinformation Dataset},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2020},
copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Cui, L., & Lee, D. (2020). CoAID: COVID-19 Healthcare Misinformation [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2006.00885
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Cui, Limeng, and Dongwon Lee. CoAID: COVID-19 Healthcare Misinformation. 2020, doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2006.00885.