Candidata: U.S. 2024 Elections Candidates and Social Media Posts (ICPSR 300490)
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Candidata is a dataset of social media handles and posts for candidates for primary and general federal elections in the United States in 2024 across multiple social media platforms. The dataset spans Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube, Gettr, Rumble, Telegram, and Truth Social. For interoperability, we provide FEC IDs and ICPSR IDs where available.
HOT Speech: Comments from Political News Posts and Videos that were Annotated for Hateful, Offensive, and Toxic Content (ICPSR 300473)
This text dataset includes 3,481 social media user comments posted in response to political news posts and videos on Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit in August, 2021. The dataset also includes MTurk workers’ annotations of these comments as hateful, offensive, and/or toxic; and codes assigned by researchers describing various rhetorical dimensions of these comments.