Viral Tweets With Fakenews On 2016 Us Election Day
- Amador Diaz Lopez, Julio 1
- Oehmichen, Axel 1
- Molina-Solana, Miguel 1
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Imperial College London
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Editor: Zenodo
Año de publicación: 2017
Tipo: Dataset
Resumen
Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral during the election day (Nov 8th). Viral tweets are those that achieved the 1000-retweet threshold duing 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 one expert. A fake news is one the following: Serious fabrication<br> Large-scale hoaxes<br> Jokes taken at face value<br> Slanted reporting of real facts<br> Stories where the 'truth' is contentious