Fakenews on 2016 US elections viral tweets (November 2016 - March 2017)

<p>Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral between election day (Nov 8th) and March 2017. Viral tweets are those that achieved the 1000-retweet threshold during the collection period. We queried Twitter's streaming API using the hashtags <em>#MyVote2016</em>, <em>#ElectionDay</em>, <em>#electionnight</em>, and the user handles <em>@realDonaldTrump</em> and<em> @HillaryClinton</em>.</p> <p>Tweets have been labelled as containing fake news or not by two sets of people. A fake news is one the following:</p> <ul> <li>Serious fabrication</li> <li>Large-scale hoaxes</li> <li>Jokes taken at face value</li> <li>Slanted reporting of real facts</li> <li>Stories where the 'truth' is contentious</li> </ul>