YouNICon: YouTube's CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05274v1
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:20:51 GMT
- Title: YouNICon: YouTube's CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos
- Authors: Shaoyi Liaw, Fan Huang, Fabricio Benevenuto, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An
- Abstract summary: YOUNICON is a dataset with a large collection of videos from suspicious channels that were identified to contain conspiracy theories.
This paper seeks to develop a dataset, YOUNICON, to enable researchers to perform conspiracy theory detection as well as classification of videos with conspiracy theories into different topics.
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- Abstract: Conspiracy theories are widely propagated on social media. Among various
social media services, YouTube is one of the most influential sources of news
and entertainment. This paper seeks to develop a dataset, YOUNICON, to enable
researchers to perform conspiracy theory detection as well as classification of
videos with conspiracy theories into different topics. YOUNICON is a dataset
with a large collection of videos from suspicious channels that were identified
to contain conspiracy theories in a previous study (Ledwich and Zaitsev 2020).
Overall, YOUNICON will enable researchers to study trends in conspiracy
theories and understand how individuals can interact with the conspiracy theory
producing community or channel. Our data is available at:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466262.
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