##### README file for multi-label tweet dataset related to anti-CAA protest in India (2020) for textual Propaganda Detection

## Contents

1. About the corpus
2. Folder content and Data format
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## About the Corpus 
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This is the README file for the tweet Corpus related to Ant-CAA protest in India (2020) labelled for the textual propaganda techniques used. 

The Citizenship Amendment Act (Bill) agitation, also known as the CAA Protest, began after the Government of India established the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on December 12, 2019. These protests saw a lot of activity on news articles and social media Twitter that had propaganda. 

The dataset has been prepared using weakly supervised learning. A related paper will be published describing the methodology used. 

-- Propaganda Techniques labelled in this multi-label dataset 
 
* Black-and-White Fallacy
* Repetition
* Loaded Language
* Appeal to Authority
* Name Calling
* Doubt
* Appeal to fear
* Reductio ad Hitlerum
* Causal Oversimplification
* Whataboutism
* Thought-terminating Cliches
* Straw Men
* Slogans
* Red Herring
* Flag-Waving
* Exaggeration,Minimization
* Bandwagon
* Obfuscation,Intentional Vagueness,Confusion

## Folder content and Data format 
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This is the content of the compressed archive:

.\
├── anti_CAA_Protest_Dataset_large.csv\
├── anti_CAA_Protest_Dataset_small.csv\         
├── README        

Notes
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1. Many tweets of this dataset have been deleted or the accounts closed. Hence, a large number of tweets cannot be retrived easily without special access to Twitter archive. 

2. anti_CAA_Protest_Dataset_large.csv has 68462 English tweets and many cannot be retrieved with normal Twitter Developer account in Jan, 2023.

3. anti_CAA_Protest_Dataset_small.csv has 16499 English tweets and could be retrieved with normal Twitter Developer account in Jan, 2023. 


DataSet 
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The tweets were scraped from twitter using hashtags that were actively used in the ant-CAA movement related activity on Twitter over 3 years i.e. 2019-2021

The file has the following columns:\
Col 1. Tweet ID  \
Col 2. hashtags used in the tweet \
Col 3. Propaganda techniques used in the tweet * \

In case no propaganda technique could be identified for the tweet, it is shown as -1. 




