Published February 21, 2020 | Version 1.0
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News article mentions of 4chan from three weeks in 2017 and posts with links to these articles on 4chan/pol/

Authors/Creators

  • 1. University of Amsterdam

Description

This upload includes two dataset. The first comprises articles that mentioning "4chan" in its post body as retreived by Nexis Uni. We identified the three weeks in which the highest spikes in terms of the amount of articles occured in 2017 (see the image mentions_nexis_uni_2017_weeks.png ) and extracted the articles that were published within these. The dataset includes the article source, the article title, and the sentences where they mention 4chan to analyse the framing. We deleted the article bodies for copyright reasons. Two columns indicate the URL to the article if it appeared online. Additionally, we added a column with URLs to archive.is links of the same articles, in case they were archived.

The second dataset consists of posts on the imageboard 4chan/pol/ that refer to one of the aforementioned URLs.

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