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ControversialTweetAnalysis

Analysis of controversial tweets This project also introduces a lexicon which can be used to classify the URL into the following categories:

Type​ Counts​ Description​ Example​
Blog​ 194​ All blogging platforms indexed in Wikidata​ wordpress.com​
Commercial​ 55​ All commercial websites indexed in Wikidata​ amazon.com​
Fake news​ 518​ 1) A list developed by Melissa Zimdars and her research team at Merrimack College
​2) A list of fake news websites from Wikipedia
​3) FakeNewsChecker​
naturalnews.com​
News​ 1,988​ 1) News sources indexed by Wikidata
​2) List of trusted news domains created by Facebook ​
nytimes.com​
Scientific​ 2,962​ All scientific publishers indexed by Wikidata​ springer.com​
Social media​ 87​ All social media domains indexed by Wikidata​ facebook.com​
Twitter​ 1​ Links to other tweets, twitter hosted images, videos​ twitter.com​
Videos​ 13​ All video sharing services from Wikipedia​ vimeo.com​

Click to access the URL categorization lexicon.

Citation

If you are using this lexicon please cite the following papers:

Addawood, A., Rezapour, R., Mishra, S., Schneider, J., & Diesner, J. (2017). Developing an Information Source Lexicon. In NIPS workshop on Prioritising Online Content. Retrieved from https://www.k4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/WPOC2017_paper_8.pdf

@inproceedings{addawood2017,
  title = {Developing an Information Source Lexicon},
  author = {Addawood, Aseel and Rezapour, Rezvaneh and Mishra, Shubhanshu and Schneider, Jodi and Diesner, Jana},
  year = {2017},
  booktitle = {NIPS workshop on Prioritising Online Content},
  url = {https://www.k4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/WPOC2017_paper_8.pdf}
}

Process URLs

  • Extract urls using Merge URLs and tweets.ipynb
  • Fix expanded URLs using Fix expanded URL errors.ipynb
  • Process URL categories using Process URL categories.ipynb
  • Fix files which don't have parallel structure using Fix vaccine files.ipynb
  • Merge URLs using Merge URLs and tweets.ipynb
  • Run Prepare analysis data.ipynb by uncommenting the Location blog

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