PHEME Rumour Dataset — germanwings-crash Analyzed
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`.
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