PHEME Rumour Dataset — sydneysiege Analyzed
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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