Datasheet for the dataset TelCovACT

This dataset documentation is guided by the work "Datasheets for datasets" by Gebru et al. (2021). The dataset itself was created by members of ‘Digitaler Hass’, an interdisciplinary project of Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin and Alice Salomon University (ASH) Berlin, that studies antisemitism, racism and conspiracy theories in online text corpora. It was labeled to foster research on automated detection of conspiracy theories and antisemitism, two phenomena that are structurally strongly tied, in German-language discourses. The records are postings sent between March 2020 and December 2021 through public Telegram channels together with a manual annotation for antisemitic and conspiracy theory related content and stance.