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Published October 26, 2017 | Version 0.0.2
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[DO NOT USE] Fakenews on 2016 US elections viral tweets (November 2016 - March 2017)

Creators

  • 1. Imperial College London

Contributors

  • 1. University of Oxford
  • 2. Universidad de Granada
  • 3. Imperial College London
  • 4. UCB

Description

Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral during the election day and until March 2017. Viral tweets are those that achieved the 1000-retweet threshold during the collection period. We queried Twitter's streaming API using the hashtags #MyVote2016, #ElectionDay, #electionnight, and the user handles @realDonaldTrump and @HillaryClinton.

Tweets have been labelled as containing fake news or not by two sets of people. A fake news is one the following:

  • Serious fabrication
  • Large-scale hoaxes
  • Jokes taken at face value
  • Slanted reporting of real facts
  • Stories where the 'truth' is contentious

Notes

Dataset contains errors. Please, do not use.

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