Twitter conversations around the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris (January 2015), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 2,079 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 458 were judged rumours by journalists and 1,621 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 193 true, 116 false and 149 unverified. 38,268 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (36,189 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
Twitter conversations around the Ferguson unrest after the shooting of Michael Brown (August 2014), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 1,143 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 284 were judged rumours by journalists and 859 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 10 true, 8 false and 266 unverified. 24,175 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (22,260 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
Twitter conversations around the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps (March 2015), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 469 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 238 were judged rumours by journalists and 231 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 94 true, 111 false and 33 unverified. 4,489 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (4,020 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
Twitter conversations around the Ottawa Parliament Hill shooting (October 2014), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 890 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 470 were judged rumours by journalists and 420 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 329 true, 72 false and 69 unverified. 12,284 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (11,394 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
Twitter conversations around the Sydney Lindt café siege (December 2014), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 1,221 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 522 were judged rumours by journalists and 699 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 382 true, 86 false and 54 unverified. 23,996 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (22,775 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
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