A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media's Podcast Videos on Rumble

Abstract

Tenet Media, a U.S.-based, right-wing media company, hired six established podcasters to create content related to U.S. politics and culture during the 2024 presidential election cycle. After publishing content on YouTube and Rumble for nearly a year, Tenet Media was declared by the U.S. government to be funded by Russia--making it effectively an outsourced state-sponsored information operation (SSIO). We present a complete dataset of the 560 podcast videos published by the Tenet media channel on the video-sharing platform Rumble between November 2023 and September 2024. Our dataset includes video metadata and user comments, as well as high-quality video transcriptions. This dataset provides researchers with material to study SSIOs, and notably on Rumble, which is an understudied platform in SSIO scholarship.

• Link to paper: [forthcoming]
• License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dataset Summary:

Totaling over 302 hours of video content, we present a dataset of metadata and transcripts for the 560 podcast videos published by the Tenet Media channel on Rumble. We have structured the data in machine-readable JSON format.

• Metadata: Video details, including title, publication date, user engagement metrics. We also have collected user comments and related comment data.
• Transcription: High quality transcripts, generated by a state of the art speech-to-text model and manually checked for fidelty.