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.
A 4chan (/pol/) dataset of 4,998,945 posts from /pol/, collected by kjj0 via 4chan API. Each record contains post text content. A 5 million post sample from 4chan's /pol/ board, capturing political discourse, extremism, and online communities. Suitable for misinformation, propaganda, hate speech, political communication, online communities, extremist discourse.
A Telegram (86 disinformation/conspiracy channels) dataset of 279,682 cleaned messages across 83 channels, collected by Federation of American Scientists via Telegram API. Each record contains message text (cleaned), channel name, timestamp, extracted URL, domain, and detected language per message. SMIDGE is a curated Telegram corpus spanning 2023-09-25 to 2024-09-24, focused on 83 channels selected for disinformation and conspiracy content, with 5,334 unique domains linked. Suitable for disinformation detection, conspiracy theory analysis, NLP text classification, content moderation, cross-platform information spread research.
A News Articles (multiple sources) dataset of 85,917 articles (43,610 fake, 34,941 true, 7,366 russian propaganda), collected by Steven Peutz via Kaggle (2022); Russian propaganda subset sourced from the EUvsDisinfo Project (2015-present). Each record contains full article text and veracity label (fake, true, or russian_propaganda). combination of general fake/true news articles with a dedicated Russian propaganda subset from the EUvsDisinfo database, enabling comparative analysis across disinformation types. Suitable for fake news detection, misinformation topic modeling, propaganda characterization, and classification benchmarking.
A Reddit (state-sponsored troll comments) dataset of 7,097 Reddit comments from verified Russian state-sponsored troll accounts, collected by Zannettou et al. via Reddit API (2019). Each record contains comment body, subreddit, author, score, controversiality, created_utc, gilded, parent_id. 7,097 Reddit comments from verified Russian IRA troll accounts across 649 subreddits — enabling study of coordinated influence operations on Reddit. Suitable for information operations detection, coordinated inauthentic behavior, Reddit manipulation analysis, troll comment classification, cross-platform influence campaign research.
A Twitter dataset of 32 nodes, 496 edges, collected by Yang, Ferrara, and Menczer (OSoMe/Indiana University). Each record contains user network (GML), suspicious tweet text, message cascades, targeted media accounts. Network and content evidence of a coordinated inauthentic influence operation targeting the 2020 US presidential election on Twitter.. Suitable for Coordinated inauthentic behavior detection, influence operations research, election integrity analysis..
A Twitter (state-sponsored IO accounts) dataset of 3,836 Russian IRA and 770 Iranian state-sponsored troll accounts with profile metadata, collected by Zannettou et al. via Twitter API (2019). Each record contains hashed user ID, display name, screen name, reported location, profile description, follower/following counts, account creation date, account language. Hashed and anonymized profiles of 4,606 verified state-sponsored troll accounts from Russian IRA and Iranian IO campaigns, enabling detection and characterization of coordinated inauthentic behavior. Suitable for information operations detection, state-sponsored troll identification, coordinated inauthentic behavior, influence campaign analysis, social media manipulation research.
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