Published November 14, 2017
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Viral tweets with fakenews on 2016 US election day
- 1. Imperial College London
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Data curators:
- 1. Imperial College London
Description
Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral during the election day (Nov 8th). Viral tweets are those that achieved the 1000-retweet threshold duing 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 one expert. 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
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