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“I Won the Election!”: An Empirical Analysis of Soft Moderation Interventions on Twitter Data Collection

  • Used Twitter API to get tweets and retweets from verified users on Twitter because they have a larger following, as well as information regarding whether a tweet has warning labels
  • Between December 7th to 31st, 2020, researchers obtained a total of 79,361,081 tweets from 168,126 verified users
  • To obtain tweets with warning labels, tweets that quote other tweets containing warning labels, and retweets of tweets with warning labels, researchers again used Twitter API
  • Final dataset consisted of 18,765 tweets containing warning labels from 8,142 users
  • Divided dataset into two groups – tweets with warning labels and tweets quoting other tweets with warning labels

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Updated 2021-05-18

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CSCW (Computer-supported cooperative work)

Computing Sciences