Does Twitter know your political views? POLiTweets dataset and semi-automatic method for political leaning discovery

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07586v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:28:23 GMT
• Title: Does Twitter know your political views? POLiTweets dataset and semi-automatic method for political leaning discovery
• Authors: Joanna Baran, Micha{\l} Kajstura, Maciej Zi\'o{\l}kowski, Krzysztof Rajda
• Abstract summary: POLiTweets is the first publicly open Polish dataset for political affiliation discovery in a multiparty setup. It consists of over 147k tweets from almost 10k Polish-writing users annotatedally and almost 40k tweets from 166 users annotated manually as a test set. We used our data to study the aspects of domain shift in the context of topics and the type of content writers - ordinary citizens vs. professional politicians.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Every day, the world is flooded by millions of messages and statements posted on Twitter or Facebook. Social media platforms try to protect users' personal data, but there still is a real risk of misuse, including elections manipulation. Did you know, that only 13 posts addressing important or controversial topics for society are enough to predict one's political affiliation with a 0.85 F1-score? To examine this phenomenon, we created a novel universal method of semi-automated political leaning discovery. It relies on a heuristical data annotation procedure, which was evaluated to achieve 0.95 agreement with human annotators (counted as an accuracy metric). We also present POLiTweets - the first publicly open Polish dataset for political affiliation discovery in a multi-party setup, consisting of over 147k tweets from almost 10k Polish-writing users annotated heuristically and almost 40k tweets from 166 users annotated manually as a test set. We used our data to study the aspects of domain shift in the context of topics and the type of content writers - ordinary citizens vs. professional politicians.

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