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Telegram data conspiracyIT chats

This dataset contains Italian-language Telegram chats focused on conspiracy discussions. It was collected using a snowball sampling technique based on message forwarding, expanded to include both groups and linked chats. Seed chats were selected through keyword searches on tgstats.com, focusing on terms associated with pandemic-related conspiracy theories. The dataset covers the period from January 1, 2024, to February 13, 2024, and includes 1,352 chats having a total of 3.4M messages. Linked chats are more prevalent, and the dataset captures both standalone groups and linked chats.

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Description: Personal Data related Information

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Anonymised Pseudo Anonymized
ChildrenData No
General Data Yes
Personal Data No
Personal data was manifestly made public by the data subject No
Sensitive Data No
Additional Info
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Accessibility Both
Basic rights Download
Creation Date 2025-02-25
Creator Tardelli, Serena, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-7235-7055
Data sharing agreement yes
Dataset Citation Alvisi, L., Tardelli, S., & Tesconi, M. (2024, September). Unraveling the Italian and English Telegram Conspiracy Spheres Through Message Forwarding. In International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (pp. 204-213). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Field/Scope of use Non-commercial research only
Group Societal Debates and Misinformation
License term 2025-02-25 /2035-02-25
Processing Degree Primary
SoBigData Node SoBigData IT
Sublicense rights No
Territory of use World Wide
Thematic Cluster Social Data [SD]
system:type Dataset
Management Info
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Author Tardelli Serena
Maintainer Tardelli Serena
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Last Updated 1 March 2025, 21:05 (CET)
Created 1 March 2025, 21:05 (CET)