Published November 14, 2024 | Version v1
Dataset Open

Disinformation on YouTube: A dataset of YouTube comments on videos related to claims made by Trump and Vance on Haitian immigrants

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Temple University

Description

The corpus contains three files. First, the youtube_haitian_disinformation_videos_meta.csv file includes comments and YouTube video metadata. Data is organized around per video information. The columnar values are: 

  • video_id 

     

  • date (video publication date) 

     

  • title 

     

  • description 

     

  • channel_title 

     

  • transcript 

     

  • transcript_str (Video transcript without timestamps) 

     

  • views 

     

  • likes 

     

  • comments (all comments per video) 

Second, the youtube_haitian_disinformation_comment_reply_metadata.csv file includes comments, replies, and comment metadata. Each comment occupies its own row in the spreadsheet. The columnar field are: 

  • video_id 

     

  • comment 

     

  • comment_date 

     

  • comment_like_count 

     

  • author 

     

  • comment_id 

     

  • in_reply_to 

     

  • neg, neu, pos, compound (VADER polarity scores) 

     

  • named_entities (spaCy named entity tags with tokens) 

     

  • emoji (spaCy Emojis and token spans) 

Comments and associated metadata are represented in individual rows. 

The third file contains the results of the TFIDF analysis described herein. The TFIDF analysis features the top 5000 terms weights for the comments to each video in a .csv file. 

  • youtube_disinfo_comments_tfidf_results_per_video.csv 

Files

youtube_haitian_disinformation_comments_tfidf_topics_per_video_rounded.csv

Files (26.2 MB)

Additional details

Dates

Collected
2024-09-13

Software

Programming language
CSV

References