Table 5.

Descriptive statistics of emotion features

Variable	English		Chinese
	Fake news	Real news	Fake news	Real news
overall emotion	3.540 [4.548]	2.924 [3.481]	6.707 [7.141]	4.703 [4.052]
emotional polarity	0.039 [0.217]	0.127 [0.198]	0.265 [0.348]	0.366 [0.239]
negative emotion	1.744 [3.293]	1.158 [2.321]	2.736 [4.222]	2.013 [2.550]
anger	0.701 [2.283]	0.156 [0.796]	0.484 [1.832]	0.222 [0.918]
sad	0.242 [1.159]	0.302 [1.067]	0.250 [1.446]	0.135 [0.722]
anxiety	0.310 [1.271]	0.361 [1.201]	0.402 [1.893]	0.288 [0.902]