Dataset Open Access
Amador Diaz Lopez, Julio;
Oehmichen, Axel;
Molina-Solana, Miguel
Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral between election day (Nov 8th) and 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:
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twitter_fakenews_USElections_2016.xlsx
md5:7c955ad823f09e07f72f7e36ca4ba8ca |
1.6 MB | Download |
All versions | This version | |
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Views | 783 | 664 |
Downloads | 692 | 563 |
Data volume | 1.1 GB | 901.1 MB |
Unique views | 664 | 585 |
Unique downloads | 377 | 266 |