Shouting into the Void: A Database of the Alternative Social Media Platform Gab

Shouting into the Void: A Database of the Alternative Social Media Platform Gab
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向虚空呼喊:另类社交媒体平台 Gab 的数据库

DOI:
10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3258
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发表时间:
2019
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通讯作者:
Ryan Wesslen
Ryan Wesslen
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Gabriel Fair;Ryan Wesslen

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随着社交媒体平台加强了其作为内容审核者的作用,替代社交媒体平台出现了较少的关于审核内容的规则和政策。其中一个平台是Gab,这是一个类似于Twitter的社交媒体平台,支持言论自由,但内容标准最低。早期的研究将这个平台与另类右翼,仇恨言论,阴谋论和其他有时在Twitter和Facebook等主流社交媒体平台中被边缘化的替代内容联系起来。为了给研究人员提供一种研究这个平台的方法,我们引入了一个数据库,其中包含2016年8月至2018年12月期间从Gab上收集的37,012,061个帖子(以及额外的编辑历史),24,551,804条评论和819,957个用户配置文件。在本文中,我们概述了我们的数据收集过程,描述了数据,考虑了我们数据收集过程的道德规范,并为有兴趣分析我们数据库的研究人员提供了建议的询问途径。
As social media platforms have increased their role as content moderators, alternative social media platforms have emerged with fewer rules and policies on moderating content. One such platform is Gab, a social media platform similar to Twitter that champions free speech with minimal standards on content. Early research has linked this platform with alt-right, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and other alternative content that is sometimes marginalized in mainstream social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. In an effort to provide a means for researchers to study this platform, we introduce a database of 37,012,061 posts (with additional edit histories), 24,551,804 comments, and 819,957 user profiles webscraped from Gab between August 2016 and December 2018. In this paper, we outline our data collection process, describe the data, consider the ethics of our data collection process, and provide suggested avenues of inquiry for researchers interested in analyzing our database.