Propaganda Tech Twitter PRC

This repo is for the Mis2-KDD 2021 paper: Dataset of Propaganda Techniques of the State-Sponsored Information Operation of the People’s Republic of China

We present our dataset that focuses on propaganda techniques in Mandarin based on a state-linked information operations dataset from the PRC released by Twitter in July 2019. The dataset consists of multi-label propaganda techniques of the sampled tweets.

In total, we have 9,950 labeled tweets with 21 different propaganda techniques. The tweets are the state-linked information operations dataset from the PRC released by Twitter.

Please cite

@online{2106.07544,
Author = {Rong-Ching Chang and Chun-Ming Lai and Kai-Lai Chang and Chu-Hsing Lin},
Title = {Dataset of Propaganda Techniques of the State-Sponsored Information Operation of the People's Republic of China},
Year = {2021},
Eprint = {arXiv:2106.07544},
Organization = {Tunghai University},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07544}
}

Table of Content

The list of propaganda techniques and their labels
How the dataset looks like:
Downloading the dataset from Twitter

The list of propaganda techniques and their labels

Label	Propaganda Techniques
1	Presenting Irrelevant Data
2	Straw Man
3	Whataboutism
4	Oversimplification
5	Obfuscation
6	Appeal to authority
7	Black-and-white
8	Name Calling
9	Loaded Language
10	Exaggeration or Minimisation
11	Flag-waving
12	Doubt
13	Appeal to fear or prejudice
14	Slogans
15	Thought-terminating cliché
16	Bandwagon
17	Reductio ad Hitlerum
18	Repetition
19	Neutral Political
20	Non-Political
21	Meme humor

How the dataset looks like

Tweetid	Propaganda Techniques
990189929 836699648	3,8,9
114879827 6281364480	8,9,13,14

We do not provide the tweet content. To fully utilize the dataset, follow the below steps.

Downloading the dataset from Twitter

To comply with Twitter's developer policy, we do not share the content of the tweet directly but the tweetid and labels. As the data was released, you can download it on twitter directly.

Go to > Twitter Information Operation website
https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/information-operations.html
Go to >03. Download Archive, enter your email
By now you should have granted access to download the released dataset.
Go to >Datasets released in August 2019
Go to > China (July 2019, set 1) - 744 Accounts
Go to > Tweet Information (158 MB)
Download it.
Now you will have the twitter dataset we build upon. You can use any ways to concate the downloaded dataset with our labeled dataset by the Twitterid. So you will have the following set up and more to empower your research:

Tweetid	Tweet	Propaganda Techniques
990189929 836699648		3,8,9
114879827 6281364480		8,9,13,14