Viral Tweets With Fakenews On 2016 Us Election Day

  1. Amador Diaz Lopez, Julio 1
  2. Oehmichen, Axel 1
  3. Molina-Solana, Miguel 1
  1. 1 Imperial College London
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    Imperial College London

    Londres, Reino Unido

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Argitaratzaile: Zenodo

Argitalpen urtea: 2017

Mota: Dataset

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DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.1048819 lock_openSarbide irekia editor

Laburpena

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