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BanglaFakeCard: An OCR-Annotated Dataset of Authentic and Fabricated Bengali News Photocards from Popular Media Outlets

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
EmoAliAl Far
Editor:
Uni
Publisher:
Men
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BanglaFakeCard contains 3,962 annotated Bengali news photocards, of which 1,960 are authentic (Real), and 2,002 are fabricated (Fake), collected from public Facebook pages in Bangladesh between July 2024 and June 2026. Each image is annotated with a binary label, a three-tier credibility tier, outlet code, news genre, collector ID, raw EasyOCR text, OCR confidence score, and a cleaned caption. The dataset supports research in multimodal fake news detection, brand impersonation forensics, and low-resource Bengali NLP. Distributed under CC BY 4.0.