ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the 2022 US Midterms
<|reference_start|>ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the 2022 US Midterms: Understanding the spread of online rumors is a pressing societal challenge and an active area of research across domains. In the context of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, one influential social media platform for sharing information -- including rumors that may be false, misleading, or unsubstantiated -- was Twitter (now renamed X). To increase understanding of the dynamics of online rumors about elections, we present and analyze a dataset of 1.81 million Twitter posts corresponding to 135 distinct rumors which spread online during the midterm election season (September 5 to December 1, 2022). We describe how this data was collected, compiled, and supplemented, and provide a series of exploratory analyses along with comparisons to a previously-published dataset on 2020 election rumors. We also conduct a mixed-methods analysis of three distinct rumors about the election in Arizona, a particularly prominent focus of 2022 election rumoring. Finally, we provide a set of potential future directions for how this dataset could be used to facilitate future research into online rumors, misinformation, and disinformation.<|reference_end|>
@article{schafer2024electionrumors2022:,
    title={ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the
  2022 US Midterms},
    author={Joseph S Schafer, Kayla Duskin, Stephen Prochaska, Morgan Wack, Anna
  Beers, Lia Bozarth, Taylor Agajanian, Mike Caulfield, Emma S Spiro, and Kate
  Starbird},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16051},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.16051},
    primaryClass={cs.SI cs.CY}
}