Viral tweets with fakenews on 2016 US election day

<p>Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral during the election day (Nov 8th). Viral tweets are those that achieved the 1000-retweet threshold duing the collection period.</p> <p>We queried Twitter's streaming API using the hashtags #MyVote2016, #ElectionDay, #electionnight, and the user handles @realDonaldTrump and @HillaryClinton.</p> <p>Tweets have been labelled as containing fake news or not by one expert. A fake news is one the following:</p> <p>Serious fabrication<br> Large-scale hoaxes<br> Jokes taken at face value<br> Slanted reporting of real facts<br> Stories where the 'truth' is contentious</p>