Until now, computational approaches for fake news detection have relied on satirical news sources such as "The Onion" (Rubin et al., 2016), viral news tracking websites such as BuzzFeed (Potthast et al., 2017) and fact-checking websites such as "politiFact" (Wang, 2017) and "Snopes" (Popat et al., 2016).
the use of these sources poses several challenges and potential drawbacks.