Schwurbelarchiv: German Telegram Conspiracy Dataset Analyzed
A Telegram (German-language conspiracy channels) dataset of 63,908,365 messages from 4,404 unique channels, collected by Hagen, Wiencierz, and Freudenthaler via Telegram API. Each record contains message UUID, channel name, author, reply structure, conspiracy label, language, media type (photo/video/voice), audio/video duration, forwarding metadata, duplicate flag. Schwurbelarchiv is a large-scale German Telegram corpus with 3.1% of messages labeled as conspiracy content, 23.8% reply edges enabling thread analysis, and rich media metadata across 4,404 channels. Suitable for conspiracy theory detection, German NLP, social network analysis, Telegram platform research, misinformation propagation, reply network analysis, media sharing patterns.
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