Fakenews On 2016 Us Elections Viral Tweets (November 2016 - March 2017)

Collection of tweets related to the 2016 US election that went viral between election day (Nov 8th) and March 2017. Viral tweets are those that achieved the 1000-retweet threshold during the collection period. We queried Twitter's streaming API using the hashtags <em>#MyVote2016</em>, <em>#ElectionDay</em>, <em>#electionnight</em>, and the user handles <em>@realDonaldTrump</em> and<em> @HillaryClinton</em>. Tweets have been labelled as containing fake news or not by two sets of people. A fake news is one the following: Serious fabrication Large-scale hoaxes Jokes taken at face value Slanted reporting of real facts Stories where the 'truth' is contentious