A Large-Scale Longitudinal Multimodal Dataset of State-Backed Information Operations on Twitter

Xiaobo Guo, Soroush Vosoughi

Abstract: This paper proposes a large-scale and comprehensive dataset of 28 sub-datasets of state-backed tweets and accounts affiliated with 14 different countries, spanning more than 3 years, and a corresponding "negative" dataset of background tweets from the same time period and on similar topics. To our knowledge, this is the first dataset that contains both state-sponsored propaganda tweets and carefully collected corresponding negative tweet datasets for so many countries spanning such a long period of time.