/tg-misinfo-data

Telegram posts from Russian news, misinformation, and propaganda channels made during the first weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Telegram Misinformation Data about the 2022 Ukraine-Russia conflict

The data is split into three folders: train, test, and validation. Each folder has a data frame with a text column, and a label column, among others.

  • Text is the original language text of a Telegram post.
  • Lablel is the label given by us for each text based on the channel the text appeared in, e.g. all posts made by a Russian state propangada channel like Tass Agency are label as Russian Propaganda.
    • It can be 0 (Russian Misinformation), 1 (Russian Propaganda) or 2 (Real News).