Viral Tweets With Fakenews On 2016 Us Election Day
Julio Amador, Axel Oehmichen, Miguel Molina-Solana · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2017
Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral during the election day (Nov 8th). Viral tweets are those that achieved the 1000-retweet threshold duing the collection period. We queried Twitter's streaming API using the hashtags #MyVote2016, #ElectionDay, #electionnight, and the user handles @realDonaldTrump and @HillaryClinton. Tweets have been labelled as containing fake news or not by one expert. A fake news is one the following: Serious fabrication Large-scale hoaxes Jokes taken at face value Slanted reporting of real facts Stories where the 'truth' is contentious