Mapping (Dis-)Information Flow about the MH17 Plane Crash
Table 1: Label distribution and dataset sizes. Tweets are considered original if their preprocessed text is unique. All tweets comprise original tweets, retweets and duplicates.
['[EMPTY]', 'Label', 'Original', 'All']
A retweet is a repost of another user’s original tweet, indicated by a specific syntax (RT @username: ). For our classification experiments, we exclusively consider original tweets, but model predictions can then be propagated to retweets and duplicates.