Fake News: Year- and Month-wise Number of Actionable and Non-Actionable Queries taken by Fact Checking Unit of Press Information Bureau

Dataset Overview

High Frequency Indicator: The dataset contains year- and month-wise compiled data from the year 2020 to till date on the actionable and non-actionable queries that have been taken suo-motu (on its own) and received from the public by the fact-checking unit of Press Information Bureau (PIB) Note: 1. The Fact Check Unit has been set up under PIB in November 2019. It takes cognizance of fake news r...

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yearmonthquery_typequeriesunit
2024MarchTotal Queries1847queries in absolute number
2024FebruaryTotal Queries1704queries in absolute number
2024JanuaryTotal Queries1622queries in absolute number
2024DecemberTotal Queries1633queries in absolute number
2024NovemberTotal Queries1543queries in absolute number
2024OctoberTotal Queries1675queries in absolute number
2024SeptemberTotal Queries1871queries in absolute number
2024AugustTotal Queries1897queries in absolute number
2024MarchTotal Actionable Queries510queries in absolute number
2024FebruaryTotal Actionable Queries503queries in absolute number

Metadata

NameNumber of Distinct ValuesNumber of Unique ValuesTypeCount
year50Number126
month130Text126
query_type30Text126
queries123120Number126
unit10Text126

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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Fake News: Year- and Month-wise Number of Actionable and Non-Actionable Queries taken by Fact Checking Unit of Press Information Bureau [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/18649